Bajo Diamante

Bajo Diamante: coast and water

550 m at 62°: Caleta Estrella (cove); 740 m at 102°: Punta Socapa (point); 760 m at 3°: Punta Puntilla (point); 1090 m at 16°: Punta Churruca (point); 1190 m at 324°: Punta Júcaro (point); 1840 m at 23°: Punta Gaspar (point); 1910 m at 356°: Punta Gorda (point); 1970 m at 329°: Punta Victorina (point); 1970 m at 329°: Punta Basurto (point); 3620 m at 11°: Caleta Julián (cove); 3620 m at 11°: Punta Yarey (point); 3920 m at 9°: Punta Julián (point); 4320 m at 35°: Playa los Coquitos (beach); 4420 m at 94°: Playa de Aguadores (beach).

Bajo Diamante: islands

1040 m at 348°: Cayo Granma (island); 3680 m at 17°: Cayo Ratones (island); 5460 m at 8°: Cayo Paradas (island); 6350 m at 19°: Caimanes (island).

Bajo Diamante: inland

1480 m at 330°: Jucarito (settlement); 1550 m at 53°: Blanco (hamlet); 1840 m at 23°: Cinco Reales (hamlet); 2520 m at 23°: Níspero (locality).

Bajo Diamante: distances

4320 m at 35°: Playa los Coquitos; 4420 m at 94°: Playa de Aguadores; 5050 m at 35°: Reparto Altamira; 4050 m at 79°: Antonio Maceo International Airport ; 430 m at 60°: Port of Santiago de Cuba (port); 1200 m at 337°: Marina Marlin Santiago de Cuba (marina).

Protected: 420 m at 66°: Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca; 11220 m at 93°: Biosfera ecológica Siboney-Juticí; 33100 m at 86°: Reserva de Biosfera Baconao.

Bajo Diamante: close by

590 m at 319°: Batería Alta de La Socapa (site); 670 m at 20°: Punto de pesca (fishing); 990 m at 8°: USS Merrimac (reef); 1010 m at 12°: USS Merrimac (1894) (wreck); 1040 m at 349°: Cayo Granma (cay); 3530 m at 11°: Muelle de la Refinería (fishing); 3680 m at 17°: Cayo Ratones (cay); 4060 m at 26°: Embarcadero (fishing); 5450 m at 8°: Cayo Paradas (cay); 5640 m at 31°: Muelle de Granos (fishing); 6360 m at 19°: Caimanes (cay); 7060 m at 262°: Torpedero Furor (ES) (reef).

Bajo Diamante: on and around

Within 15 km: 280 guest houses & hostels, 120 schools, 93 historic & heritage, 66 factories & works, 58 stores & supermarkets, 57 clinics & polyclinics, 51 attractions, 44 theatres & arts, 39 places of worship, 28 urban parks & plazas.

350 m at 82°: Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca (El Morro) (museums); 420 m at 66°: Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca (parks & reserves); 580 m at 53°: Murallas defensivas (historic & heritage); 590 m at 319°: Batería Alta de La Socapa (historic & heritage); 590 m at 337°: Bateria Alta de la Socapa (trails & viewpoints); 660 m at 42°: Casa de Visita (guest houses & hostels); 730 m at 357°: La Socapa (stations & terminals); 890 m at 351°: El Cayo (stations & terminals); 940 m at 353°: Casa de Cultura "Aurora Ochoa" (theatres & arts); 980 m at 22°: Ciudamar (stations & terminals); 1430 m at 335°: Caracoles (stations & terminals); 1790 m at 19°: Adria (guest houses & hostels); 1930 m at 7°: Sol y Mar (guest houses & hostels).

Bajo Diamante: marine life records

297 records of 130 species within 10 km, 1884 to 2025: 87 seabirds and shorebirds, 45 crustaceans, 45 echinoderms, 40 molluscs, 35 corals, 21 other, 14 fish, 5 marine mammals, 4 sponges, 1 seagrass and algae. That is 94.5 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Pelecanus occidentalis, 18 (seabirds and shorebirds); Coenobita clypeatus, 14 (crustaceans); Cardisoma guanhumi, 12 (crustaceans); Actitis macularius, 8 (seabirds and shorebirds); Himantopus mexicanus, 7 (seabirds and shorebirds); Menippe mercenaria, 6 (crustaceans); Nicella obesa, 6 (corals); Asteroschema oligactes, 6 (echinoderms); Ophiocamax hystrix, 6 (echinoderms); Egretta tricolor, 6 (seabirds and shorebirds); Chrysogorgia thyrsiformis, 5 (corals); Rynchops niger, 4 (seabirds and shorebirds).

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

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

Bajo Diamante: notes

A reef on a gazetteer is not always a dive site.

Getting to Bajo Diamante

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro del Morro de Santiago de Cuba stands about 0.5 km away.