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Mona and Monito as seen from the International Space Station. Mona is the third largest island in the archipelago of Puerto Rico and the largest in the Mona Passage. It has an area of 22 square miles (57 km 2) and is located 41 miles (66 km) from the main island of Puerto Rico, and 38 miles (61 km) east of the Dominican Republic.
Monito Island (English: Little Mona, Spanish: Islote Monito) is an uninhabited island about 3.1 miles (5.0 km) northwest of the much larger Mona Island. Monito is the masculine diminutive form of Mona in Spanish, which also translates to little monkey in Spanish. It is one of three islands in the Mona Passage, and part of the Isla de Mona e ...
Mona Island (Spanish: Isla de Mona) is the third-largest island of the Puerto Rican archipelago, after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques. It is the largest of three islands in the Mona Passage, the strait between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, with the others being Monito Island and Desecheo Island. It measures about 7 miles by 4 miles ...
There are three small islands in the Mona Passage: Mona Island lies close to the middle of the Mona Passage. Three miles (5 km) northwest of Mona Island is the much smaller Monito Island. Thirty miles (50 km) northeast of Mona Island and much closer (13 mi or 21 km) to the Puerto Rican mainland is Desecheo Island.
The total land area of both islands in the barrio is about 56.93 km 2 (Mona Island 56.783 km 2 and nearby Monito Island 0.147 km 2), and it comprises 28.3 percent of the total land area of the municipality of Mayagüez. Desecheo Island, 49 km to the northeast, is part of Sabanetas barrio. The Mona Island Lighthouse is located in
The reef system is protected as the Tourmaline Reef Nature Reserve (Reserva Natural Arrecife de Tourmaline), managed by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources (DRNA) which provides management plans and conservation resources that limit the fishing activities in the area for the purpose of preserving its delicate ecosystem, previously threatened by the overfishing of red grouper ...
Porta del Sol, also known as Región Oeste (Spanish for western region), corresponds to the entirety of the western coast of Puerto Rico which is located along the Mona Passage, and it includes the uninhabited islands of Mona, Monito and Desecheo.
The islands, along with the islands of Puerto Rico, Mona, Monito, Desecheo, and other smaller islands adjacent to the island of Puerto Rico, were formally ceded by Spain to the United States with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898.