Yucatan Channel
The Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán is a strait between Mexico and Cuba. It connects the Yucatán Basin of the Caribbean Sea with the Gulf of Mexico.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Strait
- Description: strait between Mexico and Cuba
- Also known as: “Channel of Yucatan”, “Estrecho de Yucatán”, “Yucatán”, “Yucatán Channel”, and “Yucatan Strasse”
Yucatan Channel
- Category: body of water
- Location: Mexico, North America
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Latitude
21.72° or 21° 43′ 12″ northLongitude
-85.812° or 85° 48′ 43″ westOpen location code
76HPP59Q+X6OpenStreetMap ID
node 4790040676OpenStreetMap feature
natural=straitGeoNames ID
3514209Wikidata ID
Q193260
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yucatan Channel” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Straat van Yucatán”
- Arabic: “قناة يوكاتان”
- Armenian: “Յուկատանի նեղուց”
- Asturian: “Canal de Yucatán”
- Azerbaijani: “Yukatan boğazı”
- Bashkir: “Юкатан боғаҙы”
- Basque: “Yucatángo itsasartea”
- Belarusian: “Юкатанская пратока”
- Belarusian: “Юкатанскі праліў”
- Bengali: “ইয়ুকাতান প্রণালি”
- Bengali: “ইয়ুকাতান প্রণালী”
- Bulgarian: “Юкатански проток”
- Catalan: “canal de Yucatán”
- Catalan: “Canal de Yucatán”
- Cebuano: “Yucatan Channel”
- Chechen: “Юкатанан хидоькъе”
- Chinese: “尤卡坦海峡”
- Chinese: “尤卡坦海峽”
- Croatian: “Yucatánski prolaz”
- Czech: “Yucatánský průliv”
- Czech: “Yukatánský průliv”
- Dutch: “Straat van yucatan”
- Dutch: “Straat van Yucatán”
- Dutch: “Straat Yucatan”
- Dutch: “Straat Yucatán”
- Esperanto: “Jukatana Markolo”
- Estonian: “Yucatáni väin”
- Finnish: “Jukatanin kanaali”
- French: “Canal du Yucatan”
- French: “canal du Yucatán”
- French: “Canal du Yucatán”
- French: “Détroit du Yucatan”
- Galician: “Canle do Iucatán”
- Georgian: “იუკატანის სრუტე”
- German: “Yucatanstraße”
- German: “Yucatánstrasse”
- German: “Yucatánstraße”
- German: “Yukatanstraße”
- Greek: “Κανάλι του Γιουκατάν”
- Hebrew: “תעלת יוקטן”
- Hindi: “युकाटन जलसन्धि”
- Italian: “canale dello Yucatán”
- Italian: “Canale dello Yucatán”
- Japanese: “ユカタン海峡”
- Kazakh: “Yukatan buğazı”
- Kazakh: “Юкатан бұғазы”
- Kazakh: “Юкатан Бұғазы”
- Kazakh: “يۋكاتان بۇعازى”
- Korean: “유카탄 해협”
- Latin: “Fretum Yucatanense”
- Latvian: “Jukatanas šaurums”
- Lithuanian: “Jukatano sąsiauris”
- Macedonian: “Јукатански Проток”
- Newari: “युकाटन जलसन्धि”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yucatánstredet”
- Norwegian: “Yucatánstredet”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Canau de Yucatan”
- Persian: “تنگه یوکاتان”
- Persian: “کانال یوکاتان”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Jukatańska”
- Portuguese: “Canal de Iucatã”
- Portuguese: “Canal de Iucatão”
- Portuguese: “Canal do Iucatã”
- Portuguese: “Canal do Iucatão”
- Portuguese: “Estreito do Iucatão”
- Russian: “Юкатан”
- Russian: “Юкатанский пролив”
- Serbian: “Јукатански канал”
- Slovak: “Yucatánsky prieliv”
- Spanish: “Canal de Yucatan”
- Spanish: “Canal de Yucatán”
- Swahili: “Mlangobahari wa Yucatan”
- Swedish: “Yucatan Channel”
- Swedish: “Yucatánkanalen”
- Thai: “ช่องแคบยูกาตัน”
- Turkish: “Yucatan Boğazı”
- Turkish: “Yucatán Boğazı”
- Turkish: “Yucatan Kanalı”
- Turkish: “Yucatán Kanalı”
- Ukrainian: “Юкатанська протока”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Yucatan”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Yucatán”
- Waray (Philippines): “Canal han Yucatán”
- Wu Chinese: “尤卡坦海峡”
- Yue Chinese: “尤卡坦海峽”
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