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The Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán (Spanish: Canal de Yucatán) is a strait between Mexico and Cuba. It connects the Yucatán Basin of the Caribbean Sea with the Gulf of Mexico. It is just over 200 kilometres (120 mi) wide and nearly 2,800 metres (9,200 ft) deep at its deepest point near the coast of Cuba.
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean 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 ...
In 1997, aged 22, Maroney was the first woman and second person to swim the 180 km (110 mi) Florida Straits from Cuba to the United States with a shark cage. In 1998 she swam a record 197 km (122 mi) from Mexico to Cuba, covering the longest distance at the time swum without flippers in open sea.
In total, Mexico has supplied Cuba with about 13,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Olmeca light crude since April, the data showed. The crude is a better fit for Cuba's aging refineries than Venezuela ...
In 1976 accord established Mexico's and Cuba's maritime boundary. [4] The United States and other nations have three accords dating back to 1970, 1978, and 2000 that have established a shared maritime boundary of 785 km (565 km in the Pacific Ocean and 621 km in the Gulf of Mexico).
In 2023, Mexico went from casual donations to Cuba to being its second largest oil supplier at 13,000 barrels per day. Mexico’s solidarity surpassed that of Russia (12,000 barrels) and perhaps ...
Geography of Cuba Sierra Maestra Viñales Valley. Cuba is located 77 km (48 mi) west of Haiti across the Windward Passage, 22.5 km (14.0 mi) south of The Bahamas (Cay Lobos), 150 km (93 mi) south of the United States (Key West, Florida), 210 km (130 mi) east of Mexico, and 140 km (87 mi) north of Jamaica.
Cuba has already sent Mexico hundreds of doctors, the first wave of them arriving during the COVID-19 pandemic. "In the latest agreement, in addition to the 950 doctors (from Cuba) who are already ...