Hicacos Peninsula

The Hicacos Peninsula is a peninsula on Cuba's BTS' shore, in the province of Matanzas. The lodge metropolis of Varadero is positioned at the peninsula. The call comes from a species of cactus. It is positioned among the Bay of Cardenas and the Nicholas Channel of the Atlantic Ocean, and its extremit constitutes the northernmost factor of the island of Cuba. It has a duration of 18 kilometres and its width varies between 0.5 km and 2.5 km.

The cays evolved off shore, which include Cayo Piedras and Cayo Cruz del Padre are the westernmost part of the Sabana-Camaguey Archipelago. The Kawama navigation channel was opened among the Bay of Cardenas and the northern shore, to permit faster transit of ships from the port of Cardenas to the northern shore, creating a bridge the simplest get entry to to the peninsula. The toll road that crosses it and runs the duration of Hicacos is the northern extremity of the Via Blanca dual carriageway, and it gives get admission to to the lodges and marina placed on the northern end.