Canarreos Archipelago () is an archipelago of
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
.
It is located south of the main island of Cuba, in the
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...
, at . It is bordered to the east by the
Gulf of Cazones, to the north by the
Gulf of Batabano and to the west by the Los Indios Channel.
It comprises roughly 350 islets, and is almost as long as the
Florida Keys.
By far the largest island of the archipelago is
Isla de la Juventud, while the second largest is
Cayo Largo del Sur
Cayo Largo del Sur, or simply Cayo Largo ("Long Key”), is a small resort island in Cuba, off the south coast of the northwestern part of the main island in the Caribbean Sea. The cay is about long and wide and is the second largest island ...
.
List of Islands
1) The Islands area and population data retrieved from the 2012 census.
See also
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Geography of Cuba
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List of Caribbean islands
References
Islands of Cuba
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