gulf of mexico

     

Principal port cities on this gulf include Mobile & Tampa

Trivia about gulf of mexico

  • Galveston, Texas & Sarasota, Florida lie on this famous gulf
  • Major rivers entering this gulf include the Rio Grande & the Mississippi
  • This gulf connects to the Atlantic Ocean via the narrow Straits of Florida
  • The Mississippi flows about 2,340 miles & empties into this body of water
  • Sigsbee Deep, the deepest point in this gulf, lies about 200 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas
  • Alabama's general coastline, only 53 miles, is along this gulf
  • Tampa Bay is an arm of this, the world's largest gulf
  • It's the gulf from which the Gulf Stream got its name
  • The 125-mile-wide Isthmus of Tehuantepec divides the Pacific Ocean from this gulf
  • Since 1899 the Sabine-Neches Canal has linked Port Arthur, Texas with this gulf
  • Joliet & Co. found that the Mississippi emptied into this body of water & not into the Pacific as they hoped
  • The Rio Grande of the U.S.
  • The Archipelago de los Colorados lies in this gulf along Cuba's northwest coast
  • The Straits of Florida & the Yucatan Channel are this gulf's only outlets
  • The Rio Grande, aka the Rio Bravo, lands in this body of water
  • The USBGN shot down a recent proposal to change the name of this to the "Gulf of America"
  • Based on your life line, I wouldn't visit Tampico, located on this gulf, in hurricane season. I just wouldn't
  • Most of the rivers in Texas flow into this body of water
  • Spanning an area of about 600,000 square miles, it's the world's largest gulf
  • The Gulf Stream, a warm ocean current, was named for the mistaken belief that it was generated in this body of water
  • The Bay of Campeche is a southern extension of this gulf
  • The 600,000-square-mile bottom of this gulf off the southern U.S. includes the Sigsbee Abyssal Plain
  • This gulf is the westernmost extension of the Atlantic Ocean

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