Cayuelo Alonso

Cayuelo Alonso: coast and water

1230 m at 238°: Punta Sotavento (point); 1230 m at 183°: Punta Arbolitos (point); 2010 m at 168°: Punta de la Cerca (point); 2370 m at 96°: Punta Los Cayuelos (point); 2480 m at 92°: Punta del Barco (point); 2550 m at 167°: Punta Fernando (point); 2870 m at 93°: Laguna la Guanábana (lagoon); 2870 m at 190°: Punta del Mango (point).

Cayuelo Alonso: islands

0 m at 43°: Cayuelo del Diamante (island); 4090 m at 125°: Cayo San Vicente (island); 4650 m at 162°: Cayo La Sucia (island); 4750 m at 153°: Cayo Los Pinos (island); 5250 m at 149°: Cayo La Piedra de Dios (island); 5410 m at 116°: Cayo Blanco (island); 5450 m at 110°: Cayo Buenavista (island); 5770 m at 128°: Cayo Almeja (island); 6690 m at 118°: Cayo del Medio (island); 6780 m at 118°: Cayo Puchi (island); 6890 m at 115°: Cayo Rojo (island); 6940 m at 111°: Cayo García (island).

Cayuelo Alonso: inland

3010 m at 114°: Vaquería Número 335 (ranch); 4070 m at 172°: El Cuarentenario (settlement); 4150 m at 101°: Vaquería Número 337 (ranch); 4220 m at 232°: La Aldea (settlement); 5280 m at 96°: Vaquería Número 338 (ranch); 5540 m at 103°: Herradura (locality).

Cayuelo Alonso: distances

5510 m at 157°: Playa La Luisa; 7590 m at 125°: Cabañas; 17150 m at 84°: Playa Boca Ciega; 58850 m at 93°: José Martí International Airport ; 24070 m at 97°: Port of Mariel (port); 49870 m at 80°: Marina Hemingway (marina).

Protected: 17340 m at 178°: Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra del Rosario.

Cayuelo Alonso: close by

0 m at 0°: Cayuelo del Diamante (cay); 3920 m at 215°: Cayo Negrito (cay); 4090 m at 125°: Cayo San Vicente (cay); 4650 m at 162°: Cayo La Sucia (cay); 4750 m at 153°: Cayo Los Pinos (cay); 4830 m at 210°: Bajo de Cayo Ahogado (reef); 5250 m at 149°: Cayo La Piedra de Dios (cay); 5410 m at 116°: Cayo Blanco (cay); 5440 m at 110°: Cayo Buenavista (cay); 5770 m at 128°: Cayo Almeja (cay); 6690 m at 118°: Cayo del Medio (cay); 6780 m at 118°: Cayo Puchi (cay).

Cayuelo Alonso: on and around

Within 15 km: 7 coral reefs, 3 schools, 3 stores & supermarkets, 2 camp sites, 2 places of worship, 2 clinics & polyclinics, 2 guest houses & hostels, 2 farms & plantations, 2 power plants, 2 peaks & volcanoes.

4750 m at 247°: Campismo San Pedro (camp sites); 6380 m at 91°: Campismo La Herradura (camp sites); 7440 m at 127°: Monumento a los Mártires de Cabañas (historic & heritage); 7590 m at 124°: Cine de Cabañas (theatres & arts); 8070 m at 128°: Villa Louis Montesino (guest houses & hostels); 13420 m at 175°: Las Ánimas (peaks & volcanoes); 13610 m at 164°: Loma del Rubí (peaks & volcanoes); 13740 m at 208°: Quarry (mines & quarries).

Cayuelo Alonso: marine life records

4000+ records of 3243 species within 10 km, 1900 to 2017: 1201 other, 838 molluscs, 573 crustaceans, 553 fish, 320 corals, 170 echinoderms, 99 sponges, 96 seagrass and algae, 75 seabirds and shorebirds, 53 sharks and rays, 20 marine mammals, 2 turtles. That is 1273.2 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Mesostephanus appendiculatoides, 5 (other); Xiphias gladius, 5 (fish); Lecithochirium musculus, 5 (other); Aponurus laguncula, 4 (other); Apharyngostrigea cornu, 4 (other); Diacavolinia longirostris, 4 (molluscs); Parorchis acanthus, 4 (other); Echinochasmus schwartzi, 4 (other); Litiopa melanostoma, 3 (molluscs); Calliostoma pulchrum, 3 (molluscs); Renicola glandoloba, 3 (other); Ptilocaulis aulopora, 3 (sponges).

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

Cayuelo Alonso: notes

Land only where a guide allows it.

Getting to Cayuelo Alonso

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Fría stands about 2.3 km away.