Cabezo de Canaete

Cabezo de Canaete: coast and water

3900 m at 317°: Cabezos de Maravillas (reef); 6120 m at 248°: Ensenada del Jobabo (cove); 6540 m at 271°: Boca Ciega (channel); 7720 m at 127°: Punta de Piedra (point); 8130 m at 277°: Canalizo Matahambre (channel); 8910 m at 290°: Ensenada de la Glorieta (inlet); 9520 m at 300°: Punta Chernas (point); 10230 m at 180°: Pasa de Tumba la Olla (channel); 10430 m at 220°: Punta Barlovento (point); 11100 m at 166°: Puerto Sagua La Grande (bay); 11940 m at 277°: Punta La Gata (point); 12740 m at 203°: Bahía Colorada (cove); 12910 m at 115°: Playa La Uva (beach); 13470 m at 203°: Punta Cayama (point).

Cabezo de Canaete: islands

8030 m at 279°: Cayo Matahambre (island); 8570 m at 155°: Cayuelos Fondos de Piedra Alta (island group); 8740 m at 278°: Cayo Iguana (island); 8760 m at 177°: Cayos Tumba la Olla (island group); 9380 m at 176°: Cayo Tumba la Olla (island); 10030 m at 119°: Cayos Jutías (island group); 10150 m at 147°: Cayo Los Quitasoles (island); 11270 m at 150°: Cayos de Punta Inglés (island group).

Cabezo de Canaete: inland

10400 m at 234°: Estación Concha (railway station); 10910 m at 322°: Guaicanamar (locality); 14100 m at 226°: Fortuna (hamlet); 16630 m at 224°: El Dorado (settlement).

Cabezo de Canaete: distances

10840 m at 227°: Isabela de Sagua; 12880 m at 231°: Playa de Punta Gorda; 15160 m at 198°: Playa Colorado; 57090 m at 181°: Abel Santamaria International Airport ; 108350 m at 209°: Port of Cienfuegos (port); 109910 m at 209°: Marina Marlin Cienfuegos (marina).

Protected: 29290 m at 227°: Mogotes de Jumagua.

Cabezo de Canaete: close by

3660 m at 221°: Cayo Maravillas (cay); 3900 m at 317°: Cabezos de Maravillas (reef); 4150 m at 220°: Cayo Mariposa (cay); 5520 m at 258°: Cayo de la Cruz (cay); 5940 m at 201°: Cayo Hachuela (cay); 6910 m at 159°: Cayos Dromedarios (island group); 7020 m at 277°: Cayo Tunas (cay); 7590 m at 237°: Cayo Palomo (cay); 7610 m at 279°: Cayo Bicho (cay); 7790 m at 296°: Cayo del Cristo (cay); 7940 m at 237°: Cayo Paloma (cay); 8030 m at 279°: Cayo Matahambre (cay).

Cabezo de Canaete: on and around

Within 15 km: 3 salt works, 1 cuban cuisine & lechón, 1 marinas, 1 historic & heritage, 1 stations & terminals, 1 factories & works, 1 schools, 1 clinics & polyclinics.

10170 m at 227°: Paladar la Estrella (cuban cuisine & lechón); 10300 m at 228°: Marinas & Náutica Marlin Isabela (marinas); 10580 m at 228°: La Casona (historic & heritage); 11010 m at 227°: Concha (Isabela) (stations & terminals).

Cabezo de Canaete: marine life records

114 records of 64 species within 10 km, 1931 to 2024: 82 fish, 21 crustaceans, 5 other, 3 molluscs, 1 sharks and rays, 1 echinoderms, 1 marine mammals. That is 36.3 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Dynamenella perforata, 7 (crustaceans); Gerres cinereus, 7 (fish); Sphyraena barracuda, 6 (fish); Gammaridea, 5 (crustaceans); Sphoeroides testudineus, 5 (fish); Archosargus rhomboidalis, 4 (fish); Strongylura notata, 4 (fish); Lutjanus analis, 4 (fish); Anchoa hepsetus, 3 (fish); Hemiramphus brasiliensis, 3 (fish); Lactophrys trigonus, 3 (fish); Eucinostomus jonesii, 2 (fish).

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

Cabezo de Canaete: notes

Hotels and dive centres arrange guides and equipment.

Getting to Cabezo de Canaete

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Cayo Cristo stands about 6.4 km away.