Chetumal Bay
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Coordinates: 18°20′0″N 88°5′0″W / 18.33333°N 88.08333°W
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Satellite photo of Chetumal Bay, with the Caribbean Sea (right/east).
Chetumal Bay is a large bay of the western Caribbean Sea on the southern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.
It is located in northern Belize and southeastern Mexico.
Geography[]
The mouth of Chetumal Bay is directed southward and buffered by the large Belizean island of Ambergris Caye.
Corozal Bay is a smaller inland inlet, that extends to the southwest in the upper region of Chetumal Bay. It is named after the town of Corozal on it.
Chetumal is a major city on the bay, located in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.
See also[]
- Bays of the Caribbean
- Bays of the Gulf of Mexico
References[]
Categories:
- Bays of the Caribbean
- Bays of Belize
- Bays of Mexico
- Landforms of Quintana Roo
- Yucatán Peninsula
- Chetumal
- Mexican coast of the Caribbean
- Belize geography stubs
- Southern Mexico geography stubs