Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7863
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishChinchorro CanyonIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Canyon(s) 
Latitude 18° 4' 30.2" N (18.07506535°)  
Longitude 87° 18' 29.7" W (-87.30825133°)  
Min. Lat 17° 59' 0" N (17.9833°)  
Min. Long 87° 28' 0" W (-87.4667°)  
Max. Lat 18° 10' 0" N (18.1667°)  
Max. Long 87° 9' 0" W (-87.15°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes (en): Updated coordinates (input error: [Min. Long: -78.4667°]) Source GEBCO May 2004 was correct    
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.    
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.    
Relations 
Part of  Caribbean Sea (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Part of  Belizean Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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