Cuba’s Gulf of Guacanayabo

Sediments flowing into the bay from the Río Cauto have built up an impressive delta and even helped bury a reef.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Cuba’s Gulf of Guacanayabo.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published July 6, 2020
Data acquired January 14, 2020