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The island is virtually uninhabited, being home to the 524-acre (212-hectare) Bahia Honda State Park. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded in 1961, the park occupies most of the island. [ 2 ] The channel at the island's west end is one of the deepest natural channels in the Florida Keys.
US 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses the Ohio Key at approximately mile marker 39, between Missouri Key and Bahia Honda Key. Today it is also known as Sunshine Key, [1] after a camping resort located there. The portion of the island south of U.S. Route 1 is protected as the Ohio Key National Wildlife Refuge.
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The total area, including the lagoon, measures 29.37 km 2 (11.34 sq mi). The land area, according to the United States Census Bureau, is 6.58 km 2 (2.54 sq mi) (exactly 6,579,703 m 2), the water area 0.17 km 2 (0.066 sq mi) (165,744 m 2), giving a combined area of 6.75 km 2 (2.61 sq mi), not counting water areas with connection to the open sea, but including small landlocked lakes on the Keys.
Bahia Honda or Bahía Honda (meaning "Deep Bay" in Spanish) may refer to: Bahia Honda Key in the U.S. state of Florida; Bahía Honda, Cuba, in the province of Artemisa; Bahía Honda (Colombia), a bay in La Guajira, Colombia; Honda Bay, Philippines, a bay in Palawan, Philippines; Bahía Honda, Los Santos, a corregimiento in Panama
The Bahia Honda Rail Bridge is a derelict railroad bridge in the lower Florida Keys connecting Bahia Honda Key with Spanish Harbor Key.It was originally part of the Overseas Railway, but the state of Florida purchased it from the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) after the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and converted it for automobile use as part of the Overseas Highway in 1938. [3]
This area typically has a pronounced dry season, but average monthly precipitation does not get lower than 68 mm (in March) in Bahía Honda, making this a more humid locality than many others in the region. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Bahía Honda, Cuba has a tropical rainforest climate, abbreviated "Af" on climate maps.
Bahia Honda is a bay in La Guajira, Colombia on the Atlantic Ocean. It lies approximately 40 miles (64 km) from the Venezuelan border on the Guajira Peninsula in the northeast region of Colombia. The bay opens to the Caribbean Sea .