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Los Roques Archipiélago. The Los Roques Archipelago[2][3] (Spanish: Archipiélago de Los Roques) [4][5] is a federal dependency of Venezuela consisting of approximately 350 islands, cays, and islets in a total area of 40.61 km 2 (15.68 sq mi). The archipelago is located 128 km (80 mi) directly north of the port of La Guaira, in the Caribbean ...
Gran Roque. Gran Roque[1] is an island, one of the federal dependencies of Venezuela, [2] located in the southeastern Caribbean Sea in the archipelago of Los Roques, [3] which has 1.7 km 2 (170 ha) in extent, where the majority of the population lives. Los Roques Airport is located by the sea, a few meters from the beach.
Cabo San Lucas (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaβo san ˈlukas], " Saint Luke Cape "), also known simply as Cabo, is a resort city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. As of the 2020 Census, the population of the city was 202,694. [1][2] Cabo San Lucas, together with the famous San ...
The arch of Cabo San Lucas is a distinctive granitic rock formation at the southern tip of Cabo San Lucas, which is itself the extreme southern end of Mexico 's Baja California Peninsula. [1] The arch is locally known as "El Arco," which means "the arch" in Spanish, or "Land's End." [2] It is here that the Pacific Ocean becomes the Gulf of ...
Cayos Francisquí. / 11.967°N 66.650°W / 11.967; -66.650. The Cayos Francisquí [1] also known as Cayos Franciskí (Franciskí Keys), is the name of a group of Caribbean cays that form part of the Los Roques Archipelago National Park [2] in northern Venezuela. [3] Administratively, as part of the Los Roques Archipelago, they belong to ...
Cayo de Agua [1] [2] (in English literally Water Key) is the name of an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea [3] that geographically belongs to the Los Roques Archipelago [4] [5] and is administratively organized as part of the Federal Dependencies, Venezuela, [6] in addition to being part of the National Park of the same name and the Miranda Island Territory, the name of this key has its ...
Cayo Dos Mosquises Sur, unlike other cays of Los Roques, has the particularity of housing a Marine Biology Research Station built in 1976 and managed by the Los Roques Scientific Foundation (Fundación Científica Los Roques). In addition to having several research facilities, they have a sea turtle breeding and protection program, which makes ...
4,567,467 (2020) The Baja California peninsula (Spanish: Península de Baja California, lit. 'Lower California peninsula') is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico. It separates the Gulf of California from the Pacific Ocean. The peninsula extends from Mexicali, Baja California, in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, in the south.