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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 proper derivation of the word Yucatán is widely debated. 17th-century Franciscan historian Diego López de Cogolludo offers two theories in particular. [8] In the first one, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, having first arrived to the peninsula in 1517, inquired the name of a certain settlement and the response in Yucatec Mayan was "I don't understand", which sounded like yucatán to the ...
The following 79 pages use this file: 2010–11 Tercera División de México season; 2011–12 Tercera División de México season; 2012–13 Tercera División de México season
Saint-Barthélemy Channel – between Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin; St. Clair River – Connects Lake Huron and Lake St. Clair. Separates the province of Ontario, Canada, and the state of Michigan, USA; St George's Channel – between Ireland and Wales; St George's Channel – between New Britain and New Ireland in the Bismarck ...
Before what would become Hurricane Helene could even shoot the Yucatan Channel, meteorologists knew that what was unfolding would be one of the most far-reaching storm surge events on Florida’s ...
The storm loitered for two days in the Yucatan Channel, the strait connecting the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, giving the storm time to “get its act together and build the right internal ...
Forecast tracks early Monday were predicting the system could slip through the Yucatan Channel mostly unscathed by land interactions with Cuba or Cancun and over the superheated tendrils in the ...
Map of the Florida Current. The Florida Current is a thermal ocean current that flows from the Straits of Florida around the Florida Peninsula and along the southeastern coast of the United States before joining the Gulf Stream Current near Cape Hatteras. Its contributing currents are the Loop Current and the Antilles Current.