Cayo Tumba la Olla

Cayo Tumba la Olla: coast and water

4010 m at 345°: Boca El Serón (channel); 5700 m at 66°: Cañón del Inglés (channel); 6710 m at 136°: Punta Novillo (point); 7320 m at 257°: Punta Frenes (point); 7680 m at 222°: Playa Colorado (beach); 8510 m at 289°: Punta Andén (point); 8560 m at 323°: Boca Marillani (channel); 8640 m at 158°: Ensenada Mar Nueva (cove).

Cayo Tumba la Olla: islands

650 m at 340°: Cayos Tumba la Olla (island group); 1490 m at 248°: Cayo Chubasco (island); 2920 m at 215°: Cayos de la Enfermería (island group); 3380 m at 62°: Cayuelos Fondos de Piedra Alta (island group); 4970 m at 95°: Cayos de Punta Inglés (island group); 5680 m at 155°: Cayo Róbalo (island); 7260 m at 335°: Cayo Maravillas (island); 7930 m at 84°: Cayo Culebra (island); 9250 m at 61°: Cayos Jutías (island group); 9920 m at 106°: Cayo Versagua (island); 10680 m at 121°: Cayo Vaca (island); 13760 m at 84°: Cayo Lanzanillo (island).

Cayo Tumba la Olla: inland

9590 m at 289°: Estación Concha (railway station); 9990 m at 245°: Palma Sola (locality); 10810 m at 223°: Pastora de Cartaya (locality); 11440 m at 255°: Laguna del Dorado (pond); 11650 m at 182°: Alto Ubero (hamlet); 12280 m at 199°: Aldaz (hamlet).

Cayo Tumba la Olla: distances

7400 m at 227°: Playa Colorado; 8850 m at 283°: Isabela de Sagua; 8880 m at 168°: Playa Piñón; 47740 m at 182°: Abel Santamaria International Airport ; 100590 m at 212°: Port of Cienfuegos (port); 102180 m at 212°: Marina Marlin Cienfuegos (marina).

Protected: 24490 m at 244°: Mogotes de Jumagua.

Cayo Tumba la Olla: close by

660 m at 340°: Cayos Tumba la Olla (island group); 1490 m at 248°: Cayo Chubasco (cay); 2160 m at 279°: Nikolis M (reef); 2920 m at 215°: Cayos de la Enfermería (island group); 3380 m at 62°: Cayuelos Fondos de Piedra Alta (island group); 3450 m at 32°: Cayos Dromedarios (island group); 4780 m at 323°: Cayo Hachuela (cay); 4920 m at 80°: Cayo Los Quitasoles (cay); 4970 m at 95°: Cayos de Punta Inglés (island group); 5690 m at 155°: Cayo Róbalo (cay); 7000 m at 332°: Cayo Mariposa (cay); 7260 m at 335°: Cayo Maravillas (cay).

Cayo Tumba la Olla: on and around

Within 15 km: 5 salt works, 2 factories & works, 1 cuban cuisine & lechón, 1 marinas, 1 historic & heritage, 1 stations & terminals, 1 schools, 1 clinics & polyclinics.

8490 m at 287°: Paladar la Estrella (cuban cuisine & lechón); 8630 m at 286°: Marinas & Náutica Marlin Isabela (marinas); 8820 m at 285°: La Casona (historic & heritage); 8980 m at 282°: Concha (Isabela) (stations & terminals).

Cayo Tumba la Olla: marine life records

133 records of 72 species within 10 km, 1931 to 2024: 99 fish, 23 crustaceans, 5 other, 3 molluscs, 1 sharks and rays, 1 echinoderms, 1 marine mammals. That is 42.3 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Sphyraena barracuda, 8 (fish); Dynamenella perforata, 7 (crustaceans); Gerres cinereus, 7 (fish); Gammaridea, 5 (crustaceans); Sphoeroides testudineus, 5 (fish); Strongylura notata, 5 (fish); Archosargus rhomboidalis, 4 (fish); Lutjanus analis, 4 (fish); Anchoa hepsetus, 3 (fish); Acanthostracion quadricornis, 3 (fish); Hemiramphus brasiliensis, 3 (fish); Lactophrys trigonus, 3 (fish).

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

Cayo Tumba la Olla: notes

Take your rubbish away and keep off the mangrove.

Getting to Cayo Tumba la Olla

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Cayo Cristo stands about 14 km away.