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The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...
Beneath the sediments of the Gulf of Mexico basin, most of the pre-Triassic basement rocks are believed to be allochthonous thrust sheets sutured during the formation of Pangaea. [3] However, it was during the break-up of the supercontinent that the foundation for the Gulf of Mexico sediments would be laid.
In 2003, it was the second most productive oil field in the world, then supplying about two thirds of Mexico's crude oil output, but it went into a steep decline soon thereafter. On June 3, 1979, Ixtoc I , an exploratory oil well located in the bay, suffered a blowout that caused a catastrophic explosion, resulting in what has been ranked as ...
Ciudad del Carmen is located at on the southwest of Carmen Island, which stands in the Laguna de Términos on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico As of 2010 [update] , Ciudad del Carmen had a population of 169,466, [ 2 ] up from the 2005 census of 154,197.
El autor del mapa, desconocido, pudo ser un mexica o un conquistador español, según el sitio de la Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos (véase ), donde se presenta otra versión, monocromática, que pertenece a la colección de grabados iluminados donados a la Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos por Lessing J. Rosenwald ...
The Gulf of California (Spanish: Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the Mexican mainland.
In 1563, Spanish governor of Melilla, Pedro Venegas, prepared another campaign against Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera. The command was given to Don Sancho de Leyva, nephew to Antonio de Leyva. [3] The Spanish prepared an armada of 50 galleys [4] [5] and 7,000 men. [6] He had fifty volunteers, accompanied by the eighth galleys of Álvaro de Bazán.
The Bay of San Miguel or Gulf of San Miguel (Spanish: Golfo de San Miguel) is a bay of the Gulf of Panama, located on the Pacific coast of Darién Province in eastern Panama. The bay is located at 8°19′10″N 78°18′31″W / 8.3194444°N 78.3086111°W / 8.3194444; -78.3086111