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As an island nation, Cuba has been able to become a veritable paradise of natural beauty. Although inhabited by
humans for thousands of years, the island's precious-wood forests are still preserved along with its endemic animal species and rich coastal seabed where so many species of fish, coral and other forms of sea life can be found.
Also referred to as the "green alligator" because of it's shape and lush vegetation, Cuba constitutes some 4,195 keys, islands and islets, with more than 280 beaches.
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Some of the most popular diving is found off the southern coast at Los Jardines de la Reina (The Queens Gardens). This is a chain of virgin coral and mangrove islands situated forty to sixty miles offshore, between Cuba and the Cayman islands the reef stretches over 150 miles (240km) and is at times twenty miles wide. The area was recently declared a Cuban National Park, and as such the access is very restricted and the true coral reef is quite undisturbed.
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