Cuba Country
Cuba is the big country in the Caribbean by land area. It is the main island and 16th largest island in the world.
A fistful of archipelagos ring from coastline north and south.
Isla de la Juventud, or “Isle of Youth” are the 2nd bigger Cuban island and the 17th largest island in the West Indies. ( Did you want to know what is Landscape?? )
Cuba’s land is comparatively flat, moving gradually into hills, consider a few elevations of limestone shown to the right. Cuba’s shore areas are the hilliest.
In the Sierra de los Organos of the far-northwest, the landscape is hilly with a few lower berth mountains. In the southwest, the Sierra Maestra is a natural elevation range that emergence sharply from the coast. Placed there, Pico Turquino at 6,650 ft (1,999 m), is the higher point in Cuba.
Other most mountain ranges of the north are the Sierra Cristal (southeast), the Escambray Mountains (central) and the Sierra del Rosario in the northwest.
Considering its general size Cuba has small inland water region. Those of note exclude Laguna de Leche at 67.2 sq km (25.9 sq mi), and the man-made Zaza Reservoir, at 113.5 sq km (43.8 sq mi).
Cuba has about 200 small rivers as well as many constrictive streams that run dry in summer. The country’s longest river is the Cauto that flows for 230 mi (370 km) from its rootage in the Sierra Maestra.
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