Cayo Redondo

Cayo Redondo: coast and water

420 m at 258°: Punta Purgatorio (point); 610 m at 74°: Ensenada de Mora (bay); 1420 m at 333°: Laguna Seca (lagoon); 1990 m at 108°: Punta Hicacos (point); 3500 m at 205°: Punta Brava (point); 4260 m at 66°: Caleta las Tunalitas (bay); 8870 m at 78°: Punta Tiburcio (point); 9420 m at 78°: Ensenada Clemente (cove); 10630 m at 245°: Punta Monje (point); 10910 m at 15°: Vegas del Purial (estuary); 11190 m at 80°: Ensenada Piojo (cove); 11620 m at 84°: Portillito (point); 12970 m at 254°: Ensenada Ojo del Toro (bay); 13860 m at 82°: Punta Farallones (point); 14310 m at 85°: Puerto Portillo (bay); 14380 m at 78°: Punta Medio (point).

Cayo Redondo: islands

1670 m at 41°: Cayo Purgatorio (island); 3810 m at 77°: Cayo Huevo (island); 4760 m at 75°: Cayo Pájaro (island); 5610 m at 78°: Cayo Blanco (island).

Cayo Redondo: inland

1620 m at 153°: Playa Hicacos (hamlet); 1670 m at 41°: Pilón (airfield); 1780 m at 17°: Central Luis E. Carracedo (sugar mill); 3710 m at 228°: Rincón Tres (hamlet); 4180 m at 262°: Reventón (hamlet); 4800 m at 239°: El Último (settlement); 5090 m at 12°: Purgatorio (locality); 5730 m at 58°: Corona (settlement); 6000 m at 282°: Arroyo San Antonio (stream); 6460 m at 320°: San Francisco (locality); 6730 m at 268°: Caoba (settlement); 7660 m at 346°: Las Cajas (settlement).

Cayo Redondo: distances

1970 m at 20°: Pilón; 30630 m at 338°: Media Luna; 31600 m at 304°: Niquero; 51030 m at 29°: Sierra Maestra International Airport ; 152590 m at 86°: Port of Santiago de Cuba (port); 151810 m at 86°: Marina Marlin Santiago de Cuba (marina).

Protected: 20350 m at 268°: Parque Nacional Desembarco del Granma.

Cayo Redondo: close by

1680 m at 41°: Cayo Purgatorio (cay); 3810 m at 77°: Cayo Huevo (cay); 4760 m at 75°: Cayo Pájaro (cay); 5610 m at 78°: Cayo Blanco (cay).

Cayo Redondo: on and around

Within 15 km: 14 guest houses & hostels, 8 coral reefs, 6 places of worship, 6 government & embassies, 5 schools, 4 museums, 3 attractions, 3 clinics & polyclinics, 2 factories & works, 2 garages & car services.

1620 m at 357°: Casa de Osmel (guest houses & hostels); 1630 m at 25°: Embarcadero de Pilón (attractions); 1860 m at 1°: Cine (theatres & arts); 1880 m at 1°: Terminal de Ómnibus Pilón (stations & terminals); 1920 m at 1°: Parque Central de Pilón (urban parks & plazas); 2010 m at 11°: Casa Museo Celia Sánchez Manduley (museums); 2050 m at 1°: Casa Humberto (guest houses & hostels); 2050 m at 357°: casa de la Figueroa (guest houses & hostels); 2130 m at 284°: Parque de Avestruces (attractions); 2310 m at 10°: Complejo Sierra Maestra (stadiums & sport); 4970 m at 46°: Mirador (attractions); 10180 m at 77°: Jardín de Cactus (urban parks & plazas); 10400 m at 304°: Quarry (mines & quarries).

Cayo Redondo: marine life records

71 records of 64 species within 10 km, 1877 to 2013: 55 molluscs, 5 sponges, 4 fish, 2 crustaceans, 1 echinoderms, 1 seabirds and shorebirds, 1 marine mammals, 1 corals, 1 other. That is 22.6 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Lychnocystis superstes, 2 (sponges); Lucinidae, 2 (molluscs); Codakia orbicularis, 2 (molluscs); Turbo castanea, 2 (molluscs); Cyrtaulon sigsbeei, 2 (sponges); Stylommatophora, 2 (molluscs); Pyramidellidae, 2 (molluscs); Laevicardium serratum, 1 (molluscs); Strongylura timucu, 1 (fish); Lucina pensylvanica, 1 (molluscs); Ctenoides scaber, 1 (molluscs); Turbonilla, 1 (molluscs).

Records show where people have surveyed, not how many animals there are.

Cayo Redondo: notes

Some cays belong to resorts and are closed to day visitors.