Natural features

Bay of Pigs and Playa Girón

Cuba Matanzas

Bay of Pigs and Playa Girón
Photo: Martin Cígler, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The site of the failed US-backed invasion of 1961, with a museum at Playa Girón. Today the area is known for snorkelling and diving at Punta Perdiz and Cueva de los Peces, a flooded cenote, and for birdwatching in the Zapata Swamp.


It's about 3 hours from Havana.

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