Location and Maps | Cayo Coco, Cuba

Where is Cayo Coco?

Cayo Coco is part of an archipelago consisting of hundreds of islets and called Jardines del Rey (King’s gardens), located off the northern coast of the main island of Cuba (Atlantic Ocean), in the central province of Ciego de Avila. The Jardines del Rey archipelago is itself part of a larger chain of islands called Sabana-Camaguey which include about 2,500 keys. Also part of the Jardines del Rey is a sub-archipelago called “Cayos de Villa Clara” which is located west of Cayo Coco/Guillermo, and includes 3 other popular resort islands: Cayo Santa Maria, Cayo Ensenachos and Cayo Las Brujas.

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Cayo Coco covers an area of 370 km2 (143 sq.mi.), it’s the second largest key of the Jardiines del Rey archipelago, after its neighbor to the east, Cayo Romano (465 km2 / 180 sq.mi). The smaller Cayo Guillermo (13 km2 / 5 sq.mi) is located west of Cayo Coco.

From an administrative point of view, these cayos are part of the municipality of Moron, but Cayo Coco and the other nearby cayos are uninhabited (no cities, villages or farms), only tourism infrastructures are found on these resort islands renowned for their pristine beaches stretching for miles. About 85% of Cayo Coco is covered with vegetation, with more than 200 species of birds including a large population of flamingos.

These cayos are connected to the main island of Cuba by a 17-km causeway called Pedraplen that runs across the Bahia de Perros (Bay of dogs), including a section of approximately 17 km over the sea. It took 16 months to build and required more than 3 million cubic meters of rocks and stones; the Pedraplen was inaugurated in 1988. A number of openings were created in the causeway to restore some water flow and minimize the negative impact of the construction on the local marine life. There’s a toll booth at the entrance of the Causeway (mainland side), toll fee is 2 USD per car per direction to cross the Pedraplen. Another short causeway links Cayo Coco to Cayo Guillermo (to the west), and a series of causeways link Cayo Coco to Cayo Romano, Cayo Paredon Grande and Cayo Cruz (to the East).

A part of the road that connects Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo used to be the runway of the first local airport built on Cayo Coco. The tower of this former airport now serves as an observation tower in the Parque El Baga (nature park).

The Cuban government recently built several apartment buildings (about 4000 rooms) on the coast near the beginning of the causeway. These apartments are for the employees working in the hotels of Cayo Coco/Guillermo, but many of them also live in the closest city, Moron (66 km, about 50 minutes from Cayo Coco), and even in Ciego de Avila, the capital city of the province which is located about 98 km, 1 ½ hour) from Cayo Coco. The province of Ciego de Avila, which was previously joined with the neighboring Camaguey province until 1976, has an area of 6.783 km2 with more than 420,000 inhabitants. Its capital city, Ciego de Avila, was founded in 1840.

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