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Location of the Gulf of Venezuela. The Gulf of Venezuela is a gulf of the Caribbean Sea bounded by the Venezuelan states of Zulia and Falcón and by La Guajira Department, Colombia. The western side is formed by the Guajira Peninsula. A 54 km (34 mi) strait connects it with Maracaibo Lake to the south. [1]
The Cariaco Basin is an east-west trending pull-apart basin [1] located on the continental shelf off the eastern coast of Venezuela.It is a deep depression composed of two sub-basins, the eastern basin and the western basin, each of about 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) depth, separated by a saddle of approximately 900 metres (3,000 ft) water-depth.
The diagonal Guajira Peninsula on the left of the rectangular Gulf of Venezuela and above the tear-drop-shaped Lake Maracaibo. Each of these has been labelled Coquivacoa . Coquivacoa or Coquibacoa is an indigenous name for an area in north-west Venezuela - either the Gulf of Venezuela (as used by Colombian President Alfonso López Michelsen in ...
A gulf in geography is a large bay that is an arm of an ocean ... in the Caribbean Sea between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela; Persian Gulf between Iran and the ...
The Los Monjes islands (Spanish: Archipiélago Los Monjes) [1] is a federal dependency [2] of Venezuela [3] are located to the northwest 80 kilometres (49.7 miles) of the Gulf of Venezuela, 34.8 kilometres (21.6 miles) off the coast of Guajira Peninsula at the border between Colombia and the Venezuelan state of Zulia. [4] [5]
Lake Maracaibo (Spanish: Lago de Maracaibo) is located in northwestern Venezuela, between the states of Zulia, Trujillo, and Mérida.While Maracaibo is commonly referred to as a lake, its current hydrological characteristics may better classify it as estuary and/or semi-enclosed bay connected to the Gulf of Venezuela.
Gulf of Paria (35 P) Pages in category "Gulfs of Venezuela" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The Gulf of Paria between Venezuela and Trinidad. The Gulf of Paria (/ ˈ p æ r i ə / PA-ree-ə; [1] Spanish: Golfo de Paria) is a 7,800 km 2 (3,000 sq mi) shallow (180 m at its deepest) semi-enclosed inland sea located between the island of Trinidad and the east coast of Venezuela. It separates the two countries by as little as 15 km at its ...