Mediterranean dilution basin covering the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea
American Mediterranean Sea
Composite satellite image of the American Mediterranean Sea
American Mediterranean Sea
Location
America
Coordinates
18°N80°W / 18°N 80°W / 18; -80
Type
Sea
Basin countries
List
Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize British Virgin Islands Caribbean Netherlands Cayman Islands Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Curaçao Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Montserrat Nicaragua Panama Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sint Maarten Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands United States United States Virgin Islands Venezuela
Surface area
4,200,000 km2 (1,600,000 sq mi)
Average depth
2,216 m (7,270 ft)
Max. depth
7,686 m (25,217 ft)
Islands
1100+
Settlements
List
Barranquilla Barcelona Beaumont Cancun Cartagena Colón Corpus Christi Cumaná Havana Houston Maracaibo Miami Mobile New Orleans San Juan Santa Marta Santo Domingo Tampa Veracruz
The American Mediterranean Sea is a scientific name for the mediterranean dilution basin which includes the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.[1]: 15, 35, 637–643 [2] The name, which has been employed particularly by German oceanographers, is not recognized by the USGS, the International Hydrographic Organization or other international hydrological bodies.[citation needed]
The American Mediterranean has a surface area of 4.319 million km2 and an average depth of 2,216 metres (7,270 ft).[1]
Its basins include the Mexico Basin, the Cayman Trough, the Yucatan Basin, the Columbian Basin, the Venezuelan basin and the Grenada basin.[3][1][4]
The American Mediterranean is considered one of the oceanic marginal seas. In addition to numerous small islands, large and small groups of islands, and islets, it includes the large islands of Cuba, bordering the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean; of Jamaica, Hispaniola, and of Puerto Rico. All of these islands are among the West Indian islands that separate the American Mediterranean from the Atlantic.
Between the islands, the American Mediterranean Sea contains the following straits: the Florida Straits, the Windward Passage (Paso de los Vientos), the Mona Passage (Canal de la Mona), the Anegada Passage to Guadeloupe Passage, the Dominica Passage to Martinique Passage, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent. Within the Mediterranean, the Straits of Yucatán to the Gulf of Mexico connect with the Caribbean, and by the Panama Canal, built in the 20th century, it is connected to the Pacific.
^ abcSverdrup, H. U.; Johnson, M. W.; Fleming, R. H. (1942). "The Oceans Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology, Chapter 15 The Adjacent Seas of the North Atlantic Ocean". University of California Press E-Books Collection. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
^Tomczak, Matthias; Godfrey, J. Stuart (2013-10-22). Regional Oceanography: An Introduction. Elsevier. ISBN 978-1-4832-8761-4.
^French, C. D, and C. J. Schenk, USGS Open File Report 97-470-K, Map Showing Geology, Oil and Gas Fields, and Geologic Provinces of the Caribbean Region [1] (large PDF file)
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