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Cuba's terrain is mostly flat or rolling plains, with rugged hills and mountains in the southeast. The lowest point is the Caribbean Sea at 0 m ( sea level ) and the highest point is Pico Turquino at 1,974 m (6,476 ft), part of the Sierra Maestra mountain range, located in the southeast of the island.
Pico Turquino in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba's highest mountain. The Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast. The range falls mainly within the Santiago de Cuba and in Granma Provinces. [1] Some view it as a series of connecting ranges ...
Pico Turquino ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˌpi.ko tuɾˈki.no] ), sometimes erroneously spelled as Pico Torquino, [ 1] is the highest point in Cuba. It is located in the southeast part of the island, in the Sierra Maestra mountain range in the municipality of Guamá, Santiago de Cuba Province. It is the only place in Cuba where snowfall has been ...
Location of Escambray Mountains in Cuba. Country. Cuba. Provinces. Villa Clara, Cienfuegos and Sancti Spíritus. Range coordinates. 21°59′05″N 80°07′57″W. / 21.98472°N 80.13250°W / 21.98472; -80.13250. The Escambray Mountains ( Spanish: Sierra del Escambray) are a mountain range in the central region of Cuba, in the ...
Sierra de los Órganos. Sierra del Rosario. Categories: Landforms of Cuba. Mountain ranges of the Caribbean. Mountain ranges of North America by country. Mountain ranges by country. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million ...
Established. 1930 [2] Sierra Cristal National Park ( Spanish: Parque Nacional Sierra Cristal) is a national park in Cuba. It is located in the municipalities of Mayarí and Sagua de Tánamo in southern Holguín Province. It was the first National Park created in Cuba in 1930, [2] and covers an area of 185.37 km 2 (71.57 sq mi).
The highest area is the Blue Mountains range. These eastern mountains are formed by a central ridge of metamorphic rock running northwest to southeast from which many long spurs jut to the north and south. For a distance of over 3 kilometres (1.9 mi), the crest of the ridge exceeds 1,800 metres (5,900 ft). The highest point is Blue Mountain ...