Cabo Corrientes, Cuba

Cabo Corrientes is a cape on the Guanahacabibes Peninsula in Pinar del Río Province, in the west of Cuba.

[6] On 29 June Hopewell and Swallow returned to Cape Corrientes to find no sign of any Spanish ships.

[7] On 3 July while part of the formation was watering inshore off Corrientes, Pegasus and Centaur caught sight of a number of Spanish ships.

[7] The Spanish ships had been bound from Santo Domingo to Havana carrying valuables which included precious stones and hides.

[7] The Preston Somers Expedition reached Cabo Corrientes on the 22 July 1595, and there decided to perform a short blockade off Havana in the attempt to make a few small prizes.

Two men, one at the end of the 19th century and the other around 1930 are said to have each returned from the cape with a handful of gold, claiming they had found the buried treasure.