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Campeche Bank

22°30′N 89°0′W / 22.500°N 89.000°W / 22.500; -89.000ArchipelagoCampeche BankAdjacent to

Gulf of Mexico
Yucatán Channel

Total islandsTenMajor islands

Arrecife Alacranes^[2]
Cayo Arenas^[3]
Triángulo Sur^[4]
Triángulo Oeste^[5]
Triángulo Este^[6]
Banco Obispo Norte^[7]
Banco Obispo Sur^[8]
Cayos Arcas^[9]
Banco Nuevo^[10]
Banco Pera^[11]

Administration

Mexico

Federal Entity of MexicoCampecheCapital cityCampeche CityAdditional informationCampeche Knolls

Campeche Bank is part of the Gulf of Mexico and extends from the Yucatan Straits in the east to the Tabasco-Campeche Basin in the west.^[12] The Campeche ocean bank is 81 miles (130 km) from Mexico's geography of Campeche nautically bearing 100 nautical miles (120 mi; 190 km) south of the Tropic of Cancer.

Campeche Bank is cast as cays and reefs with islets encompassing Arrecife Alacran and Sigsbee Deep to the north with a southwest island arc of the Cayos Arcas archipelago isolated 92 nautical miles (106 mi; 170 km) north of Ciudad del Carmen.

References

^ Bahía de Campeche in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ Arrecife Alacrán in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ Cayo Arenas in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ Triángulo Sur in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ Triángulo Oeste in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ Triángulo Este in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ Obispo Norte Shoal in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ Obispo Sur Shoal in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ Cayos Arcas in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ Banco Nuevo in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ Banco Pera in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ Campeche Bank in Geonames.org (cc-by)

External links

Media related to Campeche Bank at Wikimedia Commons
"Mexico - Maritime Zone Nautical Chart" [Secretaría de Marina - Armada de México ~ Nautical Chart SM030: Rio Bravo A Bahia De Chetumal]. Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea. United Nations.
"General Facts about the Gulf of Mexico" (PDF). U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. GulfBase.org.
Klima, Edward F.; Western Central Atlantic Fisheries Commission (1976). "An Assessment of the Fish Stocks and Fisheries of the Campeche Bank" [International Project for Development of Fisheries in the Western Central Atlantic ~ WECAF Studies, No. 5] (PDF). Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations. United Nations Development Programme.