The second largest bay in the world - Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico lies between Southeastern North America, bordering the American peninsula of Florida, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the Cuban island forming an oval. East-West is 1,609km long, Nam Bac is 1,287km long. The area of ​​1,543 million square kilometers, the size that is only inferior to the Bay of Bengal, ranks second in the world.

The average depth is 1,432m, the deepest place is 3,789m. From the Gulf of Mexico through Florida's waist to the Atlantic Ocean, going through the Yucatan Strait will go to the Caribbean Sea. Major ports include New Orleans of the United States, Veracruz Tampico of Mexico and Havana of Cuba.

The Gulf of Mexico is located in the tropics and subtropics, almost isolated from the ocean, the water temperature is relatively high, the summer season is about 29 ^° C, the winter is about 20 ^° C. of the Atlantic Ocean after converging in the Gulf of Mexico, across the Strait of Florida flows out to the Atlantic Ocean, which is associated with the hot ocean from the equator going north, forming the Mexican hot ocean (also called the sea). save the bay), flow into the North along the East Coast of the United States. This seaport greatly affects the East Coast climate of the United States. In winter it makes the sea level rise to 8 ^o C, making this area warm. The place where the hot spring meets cold ocean is a rich fishing ground.

The Gulf of Mexico often has high winds, especially at the end of the fall to autumn, storms here are very scary, wind power reaches level 12.

Here the climate is harsh, but minerals are very rich.The shore and continental shelf of northwestern Gulf of Mexico have very rich oil , natural gas and sulfide deposits. The US and Mexico are currently exploring.

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