Varadero

Varadero is a lodge metropolis in the province of Matanzas, Cuba, and one among the largest resort regions within the Caribbean. It is located on the Hicacos Peninsula, between the Bay of Cárdenas and the Straits of Florida, a few 140 km east of Havana, at the jap give up of the Via Blanca dual carriageway. The peninsula is simplest 1.2 km wide at its widest factor and is separated from the island of Cuba by using the Kawama Channel. This spit of land however extends extra than 20 kilometers from the mainland in a northeasterly route and its tip, Punta Hicacos, is the northernmost factor of the island of Cuba.

At the northeastern cease of the peninsula there is a nature reserve with virgin forests and seashores. The Hicacos Point Natural Park is a three.12 km2 ecological hold hooked up in 1974. It includes the 250 m long Cave of Ambrosio, Mangon Lake and the ruins of the La Calavera Salt Works. The cays evolved off shore, including Cayo Piedras and Cayo Cruz del Padre are the westernmost a part of the Sabana-Camaguey Archipelago.