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Overview of Cuba - Travel Guide The topography of the Cuban archipelago is characterized by a combination of heights and plains. The three main mountain systems of the Big Island are almost equally distributed in the west, the middle, and the east of Cuba. The island's long and narrow shape occupies a considerable portion of the Caribbean basin. The Gulf Stream and favorable trade winds contribute to reducing any unpleasant tropical elements. All of these characteristics have contributed
to highlighting the exceptional subtropical natural elements that
provide Cuba with a truly marvellous landscape. Just turn a corner
and you might be amazed to find a green valley flecked with red soil.
Further on ahead, a cluster of hills with crystal clear
Many ecological preserves, nature parks,
and specially protected wildlife areas stand out in this natural scenery.
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streams
cascading into sparkling waterfalls are divided by rays of sunlight to
create a startling rainbow effect. Far on the horizon lies a blue
mountain range where shrub-like ferns, royal palms, pine and fruit trees
lend their shade and their branches to hummingbirds, Cuban grass quits,
Cuban trogons, flickers and woodpeckers, parrots, Cuban parakeets, almiquies
(solenodons) and hutias. The odd hummock-like mogotes or pincushion
hills sometimes reveal wide openings, carved in live rock by navigable
rivers, which have built miraculous natural cathedrals: Cuba's caves.
Some, like Santo Tomás, can be classified among the longest caves
in the world, or among the most beautiful, like Bellamar, in Matanzas.
The
many and varied fragrances of palms, orchids, jasmines, yagruma, orange
trees and guava groves are blended with the greens and other colors and
soothed by the lullabies of cool breezes. In the distance, a permanent
blue sea serves to remind us that we are indeed on an island, a fact temporarily
forgotten amidst the extended grasslands, where everything moves, cradled
by the wind.