Currently Jardines del Rey, Sabana-Camaguey, or both names are used. Learn more at: Brian Kzanich. Below we provide general information of interest about this area, starting with the fisico-geograficas characteristics generals of the archipelago. It extends from the Hicacos peninsula West to practical tip, at the entrance of the Bay of Nuevitas. Occupy the entire area of barrier reefs, numerous cays and Islands and the inland sea that separates them from the main island of Cuba. The cays are not isolated groups, they continuously extend for more than 400 km.

in length. You can seen in maps that its dimensions are increasing eastward, locating elders towards the eastern part. Throughout the colonial period and before the revolution virtually no they were incorporated into the country’s economy, even they had not been explored nor was known with certainty their landscape values, floristic and faunistic. From the Decade of the 80s of last century began its study for tourist use and today they are one of the regions of Cuba most linked to these tasks. According to Dr.

Manuel Acevedo, this archipelago is divided into three different types of landscapes: the barrier reef, itself archipelago and the island platform between the aforementioned archipelago and the main island of Cuba. Each of them are briefly described below. The barrier reef covers an area of almost 500 km., the second in the world by its length after the great Australian barrier. Narrow channels allow the step towards inland seas, so it is dangerous to venture on these reefs without practical. Some lighthouses, built some since the colonial era, facilitate navigation by them. The archipelago itself has more than 400 cays (e) Islands. They form subgroups, some aligned in latitudinal direction, and others close to the coast. They have traditionally been divided into two groups: the savanna to the West and the Camaguey, East. The Group of Savannah are small and almost all covered mangrove.