The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish-Golfo de México) is a part inland unit of dampen on the southeasterly outer boundary of the North American continent. Geographically speaking, it is allied to the Atlantic Ocean by the Straits of Florida, running relating the solid ground of Florida and the earth of Cuba, and to the Caribbean Sea by the Yucatan Channel, which runs relating the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba. Both these channels are just about 100 miles (160 kilometers) far-reaching. The gulf\\'s supreme east-west and north-south extents are about 1,100 and 800 miles, respectively, and it covers an strip of in a circle 600,000 court miles (1,550,000 market square kilometers). To the northwest, north, and northeast, it is enclosed by the rebel seashore of the United States, spell to the west, south, and southeasterly it is delimited by the East Coast of Mexico.
The climate of the gap district conventionally varies from tropical to semitropic. The storm period properly runs from June 1 to November 1. Meteorological and oceanographic stipulations are contributory during utmost of this period, to the construction of hurricanes anyplace in the opening. Hurricanes spawned in the South Atlantic may besides move in and out done the water at this circumstance. The shores of the Gulf of Mexico are said to be a core surroundings for aquatic bird and shorebirds. Substantial colonies of notties, boobies, pelicans, and other seabirds season along the coasts of Mexico and Cuba, as resourcefully as on offshore islands. There is a imperfect bunking off of sub aqua mammals; the lone one of significance, the Caribbean manatee, is diminishing in figure.
