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The Gulf of Fonseca covers an area of about 3,200 km 2 (1,200 sq mi), with a coastline that extends for 261 km (162 mi), of which 185 km (115 mi) are in Honduras, 40 km (25 mi) in Nicaragua, and 29 km (18 mi) in El Salvador. The gulf is composed by a group of many volcanic islands, such as Zacate Grande and el Tigre in Honduras.
The Gulf of Fonseca mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1412) covers the brackish mangrove forests around the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific Ocean. The Gulf is the meeting point El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The Gulf is one of the two primary nesting sites of the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle in the eastern Pacific
The Farallones de Cosiguina are a small group of rocky, cliffed islets lying some 10 km off the end of the Cosigüina Peninsula, in the Gulf of Fonseca, on the Pacific coast of Central America. The group is geologically of volcanic origin and belongs to Nicaragua.
El Tigre is an island located in the Gulf of Fonseca, a body of water on the Pacific coast of Central America.The island is a conical basaltic stratovolcano and the southernmost volcano in Honduras.
The Gulf of Fonseca from space, July 1997.. Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador have a coastline along the Gulf of Fonseca, a closed sea under international law, and have been involved in a lengthy dispute over the rights to the gulf and the islands located there.
Cosigüina (also spelt Cosegüina) is a stratovolcano located in the western part of Nicaragua.It forms a large peninsula extending into the Gulf of Fonseca.The summit is truncated by a large caldera, 2 x 2.4 km in diameter and 500 m deep, holding a substantial crater lake (Laguna Cosigüina).
In 1992, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the delimitation of bolsones (disputed areas) along the El Salvador–Honduras boundary, OAS intervention and a further ICJ ruling in 2003, full demarcation of the border concluded; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca advocating Honduran access to the Pacific.
Gulf of California, in the Pacific Ocean in northwestern Mexico; Gulf of the Farallones, between the Farallon Islands and the mainland coast of California, United States; Gulf of Fonseca, of the Pacific Ocean in El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua; Gulf of Gonâve, in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Haiti