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Cayo Coco Travel Guide

Best of Cayo Coco





Cayo Coco has wonderful barriers,which makes become a subaqueous place of great interest for the lovers of submarine reconnaissances, it is the ideal place to make immersions and subaqueous sports in general.

In Cayo Coco one will be with 27 kilometers of beaches, ideals to practice any sport nautical, from strolls in kayac, aquatic bicycle, to water skiing, windsurf and the diving, one of the most excellent activities of the place. Between the most spectacular beaches they appear the Red ones, Long Beach, the Step, Beach Flamenco and Beach To pound, this last one located in Cayo Guillermo to the foot of one of sand higher dunes of the Caribbean (15 meters of altura).En Beach Flamenco is possible to give strolls to horse and in the Beach of the North (in Great Paredón Cayo), usually they organize guided excussio to see sharks.

The center of diving "Diving Center" jointly with the center of international immersion "Blue Diving S.A.." offers the possibility to him of knowing all the enchantment this coralline barrier that is located within this wonderful Cayo and them aid to elaborate a program to satisfy its exigencies.

Four centers of diving and hotels exist of first that guarantee the benefit of natural surroundings privileged by the diversity of their landscapes, the transparency of their waters, the quality of their sands and the beauty of their 32 coralline kilometers of formation.

Main Attractions

- La Jaula: Depth: 30 meters
Great site of attractive, in is combined the presence of great gorgonias, sponges of diverse forms and colors with great pargos (Lutjanus sp.), mere (Ephinephelus sp.), rays (Dasyatis Sp.) and bishops (Aetobatus narinari). Frequently sharks of the reef species (Carcharhinus sp.) and the Cat (Ginglymostoma cirratum), roams by the place

- Las Coloradas: Depth: 12 meters
Identified by its very irregular bottom, with small caves, cracks and tunnels, gorgonias and fans of sea of great development which they form a great wooded hill, in which are shoals of fish of peculiar sábalos), great parrots, isabelitas queens, fish angel and a great population of coralline fish of small size.

- Casasa: Depth: 5 meters
Its greater attractiveness is the presence of great barracudas, turtles of different species, rays of diverse shoals of fish of hoarse, cajies and other species of coralline fish.

- Los Tiburones: Depth: 16 meters
Zone formed by great rocks of coralline origin that in their bases have narrow channels that communicate with others and between which reef sharks move where also is a great amount of mere, pargos, civil, Galician and coralline fish of medium size.

- Other tourist attractions:
Blind person of Ávila also must much offer to the visitor. In the section which Cayo Coco mediates between and the capital city, founded on 1840, emphasizes the Dutch town of Turiguanó, constructed at the beginning of the decade of the ' 60 to give to seat to a cattle community, and the lagoons the Round one (4,5 km2), where an international center of fishing of the trout, and Milk works (67 km2), annual seat of the traditional moronenses aquatic carnivals and recently including between the scenes of the world-wide championship of speedboats Formula T-1.

Also in the environs of great bogs and lagoons of the north of Morón, as well as in the environs of the Hill of Cunagua, 40 zones for the hunting of species of pens are located, between which the Aguachales de Falla, Chicola, Channel the Yana and Long Puente are most well-known. In this last one, in addition, the fishing of the trout can practice, an activity that also is developed in the imprisoned Liberation, of the town of Florence, zone of great located natural beauty in the east of the province.




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