Cayo Salado

Cayo Salado: coast and water

3730 m at 301°: Laguna El Níspero (lagoon); 3900 m at 250°: Canalizo Perico Díaz (channel); 4380 m at 13°: Pasa Quebrada el Queche (channel); 10380 m at 321°: Punta Almácigo (point); 14940 m at 317°: Laguna la Colorada (lagoon); 15070 m at 323°: Punta Colorada (point); 16480 m at 320°: Playa Larga (beach); 17450 m at 319°: Punta Raza (point).

Cayo Salado: islands

120 m at 186°: Cayo Soldado (islet); 2370 m at 64°: Cayos Las Auras (island); 3420 m at 359°: Cayo Queche (island); 5230 m at 67°: Cayo Ramón (islet); 11100 m at 87°: Cayo Los Paisajes (islet); 11920 m at 193°: Cayo Guinea (island); 12400 m at 328°: Cayuelo Coco (island); 12950 m at 192°: Cayo La Aguada (island); 13130 m at 154°: Cayo Alto de Juan Saez (island); 13640 m at 65°: Cayo Sigua (islet); 15630 m at 201°: Cayo Lajiales de Judas (island); 18370 m at 259°: Cayo Rabihorcado (island).

Cayo Salado: inland

11960 m at 291°: Vaciadero (locality); 12070 m at 154°: Alto de Juan Sáez (hill); 15220 m at 320°: oasis playa coco (hotel); 15270 m at 306°: Cayo Coco (settlement); 15540 m at 261°: La Silla (locality); 16820 m at 319°: Colonial hotel (hotel).

Cayo Salado: distances

39320 m at 159°: Playa la Mula; 40450 m at 192°: Bolivia; 50390 m at 151°: Playa Guaney; 7020 m at 299°: Jardines Del Rey Airport ; 142840 m at 133°: Port of Nuevitas (port); 44200 m at 293°: Marina Marlin Cayo Guillermo (marina).

Protected: 26310 m at 283°: Reserva Ecológica de Cayo Coco.

Cayo Salado: close by

120 m at 187°: Cayo Soldado (cay); 240 m at 214°: Fishing spot (fishing); 260 m at 211°: Fishing spot (fishing); 2330 m at 65°: Cayo Aura (cay); 2360 m at 64°: Cayos Las Auras (cay); 3420 m at 359°: Cayo Queche (cay); 4890 m at 82°: Cayo del Medio (cay); 5220 m at 67°: Cayo Ramón (cay); 7310 m at 245°: Cayo Pancho la Vega (cay); 7810 m at 47°: Cayo Paredón de Lado (cay); 7820 m at 47°: Cayo Paredón del Medio (cay); 7870 m at 73°: Cayo Los Santos (cay).

Cayo Salado: on and around

Within 15 km: 8 coral reefs, 4 factories & works, 3 attractions, 2 fuel stations, 2 stations & terminals, 2 marinas, 2 banks & exchange, 2 theatres & arts, 1 clinics & polyclinics, 1 government & embassies.

11570 m at 299°: Transtur Cayo Coco (stations & terminals); 12000 m at 314°: Transgaviota Ciego - Camagüey (stations & terminals); 12650 m at 324°: Delfinario Cayo Coco (en construcción) (attractions); 12970 m at 323°: Marina Gaviota Bautista (marinas); 13350 m at 76°: Paredón pesca (marinas); 13370 m at 152°: Alto de Juan Sáez (peaks & volcanoes); 14570 m at 323°: Teatro (theatres & arts); 14730 m at 322°: Rocarena Climbing Center (attractions); 14730 m at 322°: Sport Court (stadiums & sport).

Cayo Salado: marine life records

201 records of 92 species within 10 km, 1994 to 2025: 116 fish, 47 seabirds and shorebirds, 10 molluscs, 8 corals, 5 echinoderms, 4 other, 3 marine mammals, 3 sharks and rays, 2 seagrass and algae, 2 crustaceans, 1 sponges. That is 64.0 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Ocyurus chrysurus, 12 (fish); Dendrocygna arborea, 7 (seabirds and shorebirds); Sterna maxima, 7 (seabirds and shorebirds); Fregata magnificens, 6 (seabirds and shorebirds); Lutjanus apodus, 6 (fish); Abudefduf saxatilis, 6 (fish); Thalassoma bifasciatum, 5 (fish); Haemulon sciurus, 5 (fish); Sphoeroides testudineus, 5 (fish); Platalea ajaja, 4 (seabirds and shorebirds); Sparisoma rubripinne, 4 (fish); Gorgonia ventalina, 4 (corals).

Months with records, marine mammals: Feb 2, Sep 1; seabirds and shorebirds: Feb 4, Mar 8, May 1, Jul 1.

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

Cayo Salado: notes

Take your rubbish away and keep off the mangrove.

Getting to Cayo Salado

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Cayo Paredón Grande stands about 12 km away.