Shipwrecks · Pinar del Río
SS Faja de Oro
SS Faja de Oro is a shipwreck at 23°30′00″N 84°24′00″W in Pinar del Río province. SS Faja de Oro ("Strip of Gold", which is a petroleum rich area in Mexico) was an oil tanker built in 1914. It sailed for a number of companies, and survived service in the First World War, only to be torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine during the Second World War while sailing under the Mexican flag in the Gulf of Mexico.
SS Faja de Oro: coast and water
92770 m at 151°: Cabezo El Tingo (reef); 93650 m at 153°: Fondeadero Exterior (anchorage); 95720 m at 156°: Punta Jutías (point); 96230 m at 155°: Médano de Jutías (reef); 96820 m at 137°: Quebrado San Cayetano (channel); 97650 m at 141°: Punta Gallegos (point); 98730 m at 160°: Canalizo Sur (channel); 99170 m at 169°: Pasa Roncadora (channel); 99380 m at 153°: Fondeadero Poza Santa Lucía (anchorage); 100010 m at 146°: Punta Pan de Azúcar (point); 100110 m at 150°: Estero Majagua (cove); 100160 m at 153°: Punta Santa Lucía (point); 100590 m at 146°: Punta Inés de Soto (point); 100750 m at 161°: Punta Canal Blanco (point).
SS Faja de Oro: islands
97910 m at 165°: Archipiélago de los Colorados (island group); 98420 m at 141°: Cayo Inés de Soto (island); 99400 m at 150°: Los Cayuelos (island group); 100900 m at 142°: Cayo Largo (island); 100910 m at 142°: Cayo Prieto (island); 101040 m at 141°: Cayo Redondo (island); 101050 m at 154°: Cayos de Santa Lucía (island group); 101950 m at 139°: Cayo Pescador (island).
SS Faja de Oro: inland
97650 m at 141°: Las Playuelas (locality); 101340 m at 152°: Río Maguriges (stream); 101550 m at 153°: Río Santa Lucía (stream); 101670 m at 161°: Río del Medio (stream); 102270 m at 156°: Arroyo Palma (stream); 103420 m at 162°: Arroyo Salado (stream).
SS Faja de Oro: distances
103470 m at 154°: Santa Lucía; 104690 m at 167°: Playa Alejo; 106040 m at 140°: La Esperanza; 211190 m at 105°: José Martí International Airport ; 177860 m at 108°: Port of Mariel (port); 189960 m at 197°: Marina Gaviota Cabo de San Antonio (marina).
SS Faja de Oro: marine life records
7 records of 4 species within 8 km, 1968 to 1969: 4 molluscs, 3 fish. That is 3.5 records per 100 km².
Most recorded: Decapodiformes, 3 (molluscs); Ahlia egmontis, 2 (fish); Gymnothorax moringa, 1 (fish); Onychoteuthis banksii, 1 (molluscs).
Records show where people have surveyed, not how many animals there are.
SS Faja de Oro: notes
The position is a published coordinate and can be approximate.
Sources and data
Name and position: Wikipedia (coordinates) (record). Distances are straight-line measurements from these coordinates. Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar. Named places: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Positions from public gazetteers can be approximate, so confirm a location with a local operator before you travel. For a wreck this is the sinking or wreck site recorded in Wikidata or Wikipedia; the hull may since have been raised, moved or broken up.