Ciego de Avila, Cuba, Jul 25 (Prensa Latina) Cay Paredon Grande is a small island belonging to the Sabana-Camaguey archipelago, and it stands out in Cuba for being an area where three unique species of flora and fauna are located.
Antonio Garcia, a biologist and researcher at the Coastal Ecosystems Research Center (CIEC) in Cayo Coco, told Prensa Latina that the population of cactus, of the Consolea Millspaughi family, unique in the island and outside the Caribbean area, dwells there.

The plant, native of the Caribbean region, grows in a protected area of Cay Paredon Grande, near the Diego Velasquez lighthouse, and reaches a height of about one and a half meter, on skeletal soils with little rainfall regime and some degree of salinity.

That piece of land off the northern coast of the province of Ciego de Avila, some 430 kilometers east of Havana, is also home to the Bahamas Vireo, a bird species that has as its exclusive habitat the coastal scrublands.

According to the expert, that variety of bird has been occasionally seen in Cayo Guillermo and Cayo Coco, but alone, not in groups, as in Paredon Grande.

Another species residing in the Cuban island is the Whistling Puffin (Pipig Plover), an endangered migratory bird living in sandy beaches and is followed worldwide in all stays and routes.