List of islands of Cuba

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This is a list of islands of Cuba. Cuba consists of 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the country's main island, many of which make up archipelagos. Off the south coast are two main archipelagos, Jardines de la Reina and the Canarreos Archipelago. The Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago runs along the northern coast and contains roughly 2,517 cays and islands.^[1] The Colorados Archipelago is located off the north-western coast. The following is an incomplete list of the islands of Cuba.^[2]

Cuba

Name	Image	Location	Area		Notes
Name	Image	Location	km²	sq mi	Notes
Banco Sancho Pardo	Colorados Archipelago
Cayo Alacranes	Colorados Archipelago
Cayo Alcatraz	Jardines de la Reina
Cayo Algodon Grande	Jardines de la Reina	3.70	1.43
Cayo Anclitas	Jardines de la Reina	4.50	1.74
Cayo Breton	Jardines de la Reina	6.70	2.59
Cayo Buenavista	Colorados Archipelago
Cayo Caballones	Jardines de la Reina	16.50	6.37
Cayo Cabeza Del Este	Jardines de la Reina	6.36	2.46
Cayo Caguamas	Jardines de la Reina	7.86	3.03
Cayo Coco		Jardines del Rey	370	140	^[3]
Cayo Confites	Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago	Nearest point of Cuba to The Bahamas (Cay Lobos): 14 mi (22.5 km)
Cayo Cruz del Padre	Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago
Cayo De Las Doce Leguas	Jardines de la Reina	26.80	10.35
Cayo Esquivel	Jardines del Rey
Cayo Fragoso	List of islands of Cuba is located in Cuba List of islands of Cuba	Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago	101	39
Cayo Guajaba	List of islands of Cuba is located in Cuba List of islands of Cuba	Jardines del Rey
Cayo Guillermo		Jardines del Rey	There are 4 all-inclusive tourist resorts on the north side of this island.
Cayo Ines de Soto	Colorados Archipelago
Cayo Jutías		Colorados Archipelago
Cayo Largo del Sur		Canarreos Archipelago	The second-largest island in the Canarreos Archipelago; approximately 25 kilometers (16 mi) long and 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) wide.
Cayo Las Brujas		Ciego de Ávila Province
Cayo Levisa		Colorados Archipelago	1.5	0.58	^[4]
Cayo Punta Arenas	Colorados Archipelago
Cayo Rapado Grande	Colorados Archipelago
Cayo Romano	List of islands of Cuba is located in Cuba List of islands of Cuba	Jardines del Rey	777	300	The largest island in Jardines del Rey; .^[5]
Cayo Sabinal	List of islands of Cuba is located in Cuba List of islands of Cuba	Jardines del Rey	335	129	^[6]
Cayo Saetia		Jardines del Rey	42	16
Cayo Santa María		Jardines del Rey	21.4	8.3	This island is a popular tourist destination.
Cayos Ana Maria	Jardines de la Reina	14.76	5.70	In 2012 it had a population of 10.
Cayos Cinco Balas	Jardines de la Reina	13.50	5.21
Cayos Granada	Jardines de la Reina	16.63	6.42
Cayos Media Luna	Jardines de la Reina	7.10	2.74
Cayos Mordazo	Jardines de la Reina	9.30	3.59
Cayos Pingues	Jardines de la Reina	20.46	7.90
Cayos Punta Tabaco	Colorados Archipelago
Ernst Thälmann Island	List of islands of Cuba is located in Cuba List of islands of Cuba	Canarreos Archipelago	Formerly Cayo Blanco del Sur, this 15 km-long (9.3 mi), 500-metre-wide (1,600 ft) island is named after Ernst Thälmann, a German Communist politician and activist.
Isla de la Juventud		Canarreos Archipelago	2,200	850	Cuba's second-largest island, and the largest among Canarreos Archipelago's 350 islands. Located almost directly south of Havana, its population is approximately 76,000.

References

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^ Mapping Interactivo (March 2005). "Mangroves variability in the Sabana-Camaguay Archipellago". Archived from the original on 2007年08月08日. Retrieved 2007年10月16日.
^ "Cuban Islands". GeoNames. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
^ Jardines del Rey on turismodecuba.com.ar Archived 2011年10月24日 at the Wayback Machine
^ Bonanza World. "Hotel Villa Cayo Levisa - CUBACATION - Cuba Hotels, Book hotel in Cuba, Havana, Old Havana, Varadero, Trinidad, Santiago, Pinar del Río, Cienfuegos and Cayo Santa María, Cayo Largo, Cayo Las Brujas, Cayo Ensenachos and Cayo Coco with Cubacation". cubacation.net. Archived from the original on 2016年09月22日. Retrieved 2015年08月21日.
^ "Geografia". PPrincipe Cult.Cuba. Archived from the original on 2011年09月19日. Retrieved 2011年09月30日.
^ "Guantanamo Bay". Guantanamo Bay. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012.

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^{^}These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which ^*the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

^†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

^ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ^~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

^#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.

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