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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.
Satellite view of the Gulf of California, between the Baja California Peninsula (left/west) and mainland northwestern Mexico (right/east). The Gulf of California — a gulf of the Pacific Ocean, part of the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Also known as the Sea of Cortez, Sea of Cortés, Vermilion Sea, Mar de Cortés, Mar Bermejo, and Golfo de California.
A map of the principal hydrological divides of North America.The Eastern Continental Divide (orange line) demarcates two watersheds of the Atlantic Ocean: the Gulf of Mexico watershed and the Atlantic Seaboard watershed.
This is a list of U.S. states and territories ranked by their coastline length. 30 states have a coastline: 23 with a coastline on the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean (including the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine), and/or Pacific Ocean, and 8 with a Great Lakes shoreline. New York has coasts on both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1974, the Mexican government designated portions of the upper Gulf and lower Colorado River Delta as a reserve zone. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated over 12,000 km 2 (3,000,000 acres) of Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve as a Biosphere Nature reserve in
The Southern limits of the Bering Sea [P 4] and the Gulf of Alaska. [P 5] On the East. The Western limit of Coastal waters of Southeast Alaska and Br. Columbia, [P 6] and the Southern limit of the Gulf of California. [P 7] On the South. The Equator, but excluding those islands of the Gilbert and Galàpagos [sic] Groups which lie to the ...
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The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.