Santa Lucía, due to its nearness with Cubitas Mountain Range and Sabinal Key, owns a rich endemic and elegant flora. It is common to find a great variety of coconuts palm trees, royal palms, roses, laurels, butterfly flower, (Cuba’s National Flower), bougainvilleas, flamboyant, atejes and sabinas.

The land fauna at the resort is mainly represented by birds with colourful feathers and beautiful singing, such as the Perico (Arantiga euops) , Cotorra, (Amazona leucocéfala)  Rosacoli, and the Negrito (Melopyrrha negra),” a bright singing bird characteristic of the area. Furthermore, the local avifauna is enriched by its proximity with Sabinal key, owner of a main colony of Pink Flamingos of the Caribbean; you may also appreciate seagulls and Pelicans.

Santa Lucía’s sea bottoms, with the second coral reef of the world, are the home of countless sea species, among them a great variety of tropical fish species, manaties (Trichechus  manatus – Manatus Linnaeus, Aquatic Mammal with an extinction threat), oysters, Strombus gigas, octopus, hawksbill and kawamas, crabs, molluscs, hakes and fishes of bigger  fishing such as sea breams, rabirrubia and tuna fish.

Santa Lucía’s other virtues is having kept the biggest pink flamingo population of the Caribbean in its environment and next keys. The pink colour of flamingos, the varied blues of the sky and the sea, the incandescent green of the surrounding abundant vegetation and the skin of different shades of the thousand visitors arriving here every year, form a special colourful scenario under Santa Lucía’s sun influx.