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A coral skeleton from the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, Quintana Roo, Mexico The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), also popularly known as the Great Mayan Reef or Great Maya Reef, is a marine region that stretches over 1,126 kilometres (700 mi) along the coasts of four countries – Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras – from Isla Contoy at the northern tip of the Yucatán ...
Cañón del Río Blanco National Park: 1938: 556: Veracruz: Cañón del Sumidero National Park: 1980: 217: Chiapas: Cerro de Garnica National Park: 1936: 9: Michoacán: Cerro de la Estrella National Park: 1938: 11: Distrito Federal (Ciudad de México) Cerro de Las Campanas National Park: 1937: 0.58: Querétaro: Cofre de Perote National Park ...
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The park contains both shallow and mesophotic coral reefs and extends to the 100 m depth isobar. [5] This park is protected under the Ramsar Convention along with Manglares y Humedales del Norte de Isla Cozumel, they both are included in the UNESCO protected area called Isla Cozumel Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. [6]
Green Island has been a popular tourist resort for more than a century. The island became a national park in 1937, [2] a marine park in 1974 and part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area in 1981. Today the island, reef and beaches are managed together as a recreation area. [3] Camping on the island is not permitted.
Veracruz Reef System National Park (Spanish: Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano National Marine Park) is a national marine park and protected area located in Veracruz, Mexico. The park was established in 1994 and covers a total area of approximately 65,516.47 hectares (161,894.7 acres), divided into two polygons: the Veracruz Polygon, which ...
Scorpion Reef (Spanish: Arrecife Alacranes) is an atoll containing a small group of islets in the Gulf of Mexico, about 125 kilometres (78 mi; 67 NM) off the northern coast of the state of Yucatán, Mexico. [2] Designated a national park, the reef is part of the Campeche Bank archipelago and is the largest reef in the southern Gulf of Mexico.
The 27 square mile national park is home to 11 different species of coral. [2] It is the northernmost coral reef in the eastern Pacific Ocean. [3] [4] The reef has a number of colonies [citation needed] of hard coral atop rock outcroppings that run parallel to the coast, [5] occurring in progressively deeper