Beaches - Santiago de Cuba

Bacajagua Beach

This is a beautiful golden sand beach within the deep cleft of a river mouth. It is near to Daiquirí and Verraco Beach.

Bucanero Beach

This beach is located 25 minutes away from Santiago's centre. The average temperature is about 30 °C, with a lot of sun and little rain throughout the year. Bucanero is a magnificent golden sand beach backed by limestone cliffs. This beach is the private reserve of the Hotel Bucanero.

As part of the Natural Park Baconao, the beach has a beautiful scenery with on one side the Caribbean Sea and on the other side the Sierra Maestra mountain range.

Playa Caleton Blanco

Caleton Blanco beach can be found on an inlet west of Baconao Park, where nature grows wild and free. Its fine white sands are surrounded, like most beaches on this coast, by boulders and a thick growth that stretches almost to the seashore.

Being so near to the Sierra Maestra mountain range, this beach is enclosed by mountains. The Sierra Mar Diving Center operates next to this area.

Playa Daiquiri

This beach is located inside the Baconao Park Biosphere Reserve, in a coastal zone to the south, very close to the Sierra Maestra mountain range. Baconao Park, 80 000 hectares of natural beauties encloses this beach of fine sand and crystal-clear waters surrounded by boulders that grant it great privacy.

Playa Daiquiri lent its name to the famous drink. The beach has dull grey sand over grown with vegetation. The road continues east to Bacajagua Beach.

In this area we find a diving spot comprising Daiquirí and Bucanero. Several sunken ships —Baconao, Fruit Cuba and El Casco—, and submarine cliffs like El Ancla, El Tanque, Piedra de los Arigues y La Pared characterize this spot. La Cueva (The Cave), a place not to be missed, is quite an interesting formation. It is a passage that can be entered from the sea and reaches dry land under a steep cliff.

Playa Sevilla

63 kilometers to the west of Santiago de Cuba and 2 hours by car to Antonio Maceo International Airport, lies Sevilla beach renowned by its brown sands and the mountains that seem to look over it.

Some of the nice attractions are the beautiful coral reef, that can already be seen after going into the sea for about 50 meters wearing a snorkel and the Sierra Mar diving center.

Also this beach is quite close to the place where the fleet of the Spanish Admiral Cervera went down in 1898 after a sea battle against American ships. Close to the shore still lie the remains of three of the ships lost in that battle: Oquendo and Vizcaya and Colón. Those ships have become true gardens with coral, sea fans and sponges.

Another interesting site is Mandinga Reef, a submarine mountain, rising from the abyssal plains of the sea, inhabited by fish of every size and species.

Playa Siboney

The beautiful little beach Siboney, can be found about 19 kilometers from Santiago. Because of this many people living in Santiago go there. It's a very clean beach, with transparent water, surrounded by coconut trees. It's an excellent choice for relaxing and enjoying along with local people.