Cueva de los Peces

Cueva de los Peces: coast and water

7020 m at 160°: Punta Ceibita (point); 7990 m at 242°: Punta Las Navajas (point); 8140 m at 157°: Punta Perdiz (point); 8960 m at 314°: Punta Guaníval (point); 9790 m at 217°: Estero Migote (cove); 10770 m at 215°: Punta Migote del Padre (point); 11110 m at 320°: Punta Palizada (point); 11110 m at 148°: Punta El Brinco (point); 15470 m at 137°: Playa Girón (beach); 22200 m at 229°: Punta Cayo Blanco (point); 26150 m at 69°: Laguna Plancho Caro (marsh); 27680 m at 62°: Laguna Amici (marsh); 28590 m at 120°: Caleta del Toro (cove); 29600 m at 353°: Laguna Salchicha (marsh).

Cueva de los Peces: islands

12170 m at 249°: Cayo Mogote (island); 14980 m at 229°: Cayo Borracho (island); 16420 m at 215°: Cayo Rancho de Cándido (island); 20650 m at 5°: Cayos Las Puercas (island group); 20780 m at 11°: Cayo La Gloria (island); 22520 m at 175°: Cayo Piedras (island); 22880 m at 229°: Cayo Blanco (island); 27680 m at 255°: Cayo Cayuelo (island).

Cueva de los Peces: inland

4240 m at 150°: Lagunillas (locality); 5880 m at 15°: Hondones (settlement); 6130 m at 159°: Punta Perdiz (settlement); 8280 m at 145°: Perdices (locality).

Cueva de los Peces: distances

7660 m at 252°: Playa Los Cocos; 12780 m at 341°: Playa Máquina; 14130 m at 335°: Playa Larga; 74260 m at 215°: Vilo Acuña International Airport ; 71840 m at 91°: Port of Cienfuegos (port); 70640 m at 92°: Marina Marlin Cienfuegos (marina).

Protected: 18160 m at 99°: Refugio de Faunas; 28600 m at 359°: Criadero de Manjuaris (Cuban gar).

Cueva de los Peces: close by

6070 m at 159°: Centro de Buceo Punta Perdiz (reef); 8150 m at 157°: Punta Perdiz (reef); 11280 m at 345°: Playa Larga (Zapata) (fishing); 11950 m at 234°: Cayo Alcatraz (cay); 12170 m at 249°: Cayo Mogote (cay); 13100 m at 140°: Cueva El Brinco (reef); 14210 m at 332°: Octopus Club (reef); 14980 m at 229°: Cayo Borracho (cay); 15080 m at 330°: Centro de Buceo Felix (reef); 15470 m at 137°: Playa Girón (reef); 16410 m at 215°: Cayo Rancho de Cándido (cay); 18930 m at 222°: Cayo Miguel (island group).

Cueva de los Peces: on and around

Within 15 km: 123 guest houses & hostels, 11 attractions, 5 stores & supermarkets, 3 banks & exchange, 3 trails & viewpoints, 3 government & embassies, 2 camp sites, 2 salt works, 1 hospitals, 1 clinics & polyclinics.

90 m at 77°: Cueva de los peces (attractions); 1820 m at 349°: Playa Bea y Moy (attractions); 6130 m at 160°: Playa Punta Perdiz (attractions); 6620 m at 356°: Embarcadero Giorgiana y JA 1 (attractions); 6620 m at 356°: Embarcadero Giorgiana y Jardines Agreessor 1 (attractions); 9240 m at 346°: El Corsario (guest houses & hostels); 9700 m at 345°: Cabañas 15 y 16 (guest houses & hostels); 9710 m at 345°: Cabañas 17 y 18 (guest houses & hostels); 9930 m at 345°: Campismo Girón (camp sites); 11430 m at 146°: The Whirlpool (attractions); 12430 m at 341°: Campamento de Pioneros Exploradores 19 de Abril (camp sites); 12570 m at 271°: Mirador #1 (attractions); 13040 m at 141°: Sendero (attractions).

Cueva de los Peces: marine life records

735 records of 302 species within 10 km, 1910 to 2026: 289 fish, 148 sponges, 90 corals, 63 echinoderms, 48 seabirds and shorebirds, 34 molluscs, 30 crustaceans, 18 other, 8 sharks and rays, 6 seagrass and algae, 1 marine mammals. That is 234.0 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Demospongiae, 28 (sponges); Sparisoma viride, 19 (fish); Agelas sceptrum, 16 (sponges); Benthocometes robustus, 13 (fish); Ophiomusa valida, 12 (echinoderms); Acanthopleura granulata, 12 (molluscs); Antillogorgia, 11 (corals); Abudefduf saxatilis, 11 (fish); Aplysina fistularis, 9 (sponges); Chaetodon capistratus, 9 (fish); Spirobranchus giganteus, 9 (other); Cardisoma guanhumi, 9 (crustaceans).

Months with records, seabirds and shorebirds: Feb 2, Mar 3, Dec 6.

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

Cueva de los Peces: notes

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