Geographic location

Geografic  Location
Cuba, at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico, is the largest of the  Antilles islands. The Caribbean sea bathes its coasts. Atlantic Ocean currents swirl around it, filling its insular platform with life.

One hundred  eighty kilometers to the north lies the U.S. peninsula of Florida. To the south is the island of Jamaica, 149 kilometers away (238 miles). To the west, at a  distance of 210 kilometers (336 miles), is the Yucatan. Cuba´s closest neighbor,  Haiti, lies east, just 67 kilometers from the eastern tip of the country.

The  archipielago is made up of the island of Cuba, the Isle of Youth fornerly known as the Isle of Pines and 4,195 islets, keys and small islands, most of them uninhabited, virgin lands that have preserved their pristine beauty.