Cerro Cachimbo

Cerro Cachimbo is a Protected Natural Landscape in Camagüey province, central Cuba, located in the Najasa area south-east of the city of Camagüey. It is a low hill of the Sierra de Najasa, a small group of heights in the south of Najasa municipality whose highest point is the Sierra del Chorrillo, at 324.2 metres ^[1]. It is listed in the World Database on Protected Areas as a Protected Landscape (IUCN category V) of about 1.26 km² ^[2].

Cerro Cachimbo is one of the low hills of the Sierra de Najasa, a small group of elevations in the south of Najasa municipality, about 10 kilometres south of the municipal capital; the group's highest point is the Sierra del Chorrillo, at 324.2 metres above sea level ^[1]. The hills rise above the surrounding plains of southern Camagüey province.

The city of Camagüey, the provincial capital, has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw), with hot afternoons, mild to warm mornings all year, rain peaking in June and lowest in February. Cuba is frequently struck by tropical cyclones ^[1].

The Sierra de Najasa was a refuge for Cuba's Indigenous people, for the mambises of the independence wars, and in 1958 for the rebels of the 26th of July Movement's Camagüey Front ^[1].

Cerro Cachimbo is a Protected Landscape (IUCN category V) in the World Database on Protected Areas, covering about 1.26 km² ^[1]. The neighbouring Sierra de Najasa is listed separately as a Protected Landscape of about 11.5 km², and the Sierra del Chorrillo as a Protected Area of Managed Resources of about 34 km² (https://www.protectedplanet.net/555621496; https://www.protectedplanet.net/13615). The forested Najasa hills stand out from an extensively cleared agricultural and grazing region.