The landscape of the marine and coral terraces of Maisí, the world’s largest system of this type of geological sites, were classified as a wonder of nature by the members of the Circumnavigating Cuba Expedition, which sails 5,700 kilometers from the southern and northern coasts of the country.
Reinaldo Estrada Estrada, a geographer from the Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation for Nature and Man (FANJ), commented on board the boat MV Oceans for Youth, that for the first time he observed the Terraces from the sea and it is like visualizing the Pyramids of Egypt or the Grand Canyon of Colorado, the largest in the universe.
As he explored the easternmost end of the southern coast of the Guantanamo Province, the expert from the National System of Protected Areas (SNAP) commented that these 24-level coastal and fluvial canyons have not been well studied, of which between four and six are submerged, reach between 400 and 500 meters high and show ancient sea levels and the different oscillation movements of the earth’s crust.
Included during the year 2022 in the list of the First 100 Geological Heritage Sites of the planet by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the terraces are located in a dry area, characterized by a high degree of endemic species in flora and fauna.
