MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7863 |
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English | Chinchorro Canyon | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
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Canyon(s) |
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Latitude |
18° 4' 30.2" N (18.07506535°) |
Longitude |
87° 18' 29.7" W (-87.30825133°) |
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Min. Lat |
17° 59' 0" N (17.9833°) |
Min. Long |
87° 28' 0" W (-87.4667°) |
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Max. Lat |
18° 10' 0" N (18.1667°) |
Max. Long |
87° 9' 0" W (-87.15°) |
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IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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Notes |
(en): Updated coordinates (input error: [Min. Long: -78.4667°])
Source GEBCO May 2004 was correct |
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GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-16. Proposer: José Luis Frias Salazar, National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico; and Lisa Taylor, National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), USA. Year of proposal: 2003. |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the Chinchorro mummies, the oldest examples of mummified human remains, in the nearby Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. |
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Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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