Chetumal Bay
Chetumal Bay is a semi-closed mesohaline estuary on the southern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is located in northern Belize and southeastern Mexico.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bay
- Description: large bay of the western Caribbean Sea on the southern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula
- Also known as: “Bahia Chetumal”, “Bahia Chetumul”, “Bahía Chutumal”, and “Bahía Espiritu Santo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sarteneja.
Sarteneja
Village
Photo: Jennifer Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sarteneja is the largest fishing community and the second largest village in Belize. It recorded a population of 3,500 according to a 2016 estimate. The name Sarteneja is a Castilian distortion of its original Mayan name Tza-ten-a-ha, which means 'water between the rocks'. Sarteneja is situated 4 miles south of Chetumal Bay.
Chetumal Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Belize, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Chetumal Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Chetumal Bay” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Badia de Chetumal”
- Catalan: “bahía de Chetumal”
- Cebuano: “Chetumal Bay”
- Chinese: “切圖馬爾灣”
- Czech: “Chetumalský záliv”
- Dutch: “Bocht van Chetumal”
- French: “baie de Chetumal”
- French: “Baie de chetumal”
- French: “Baie de Chetumal”
- French: “Baie De Chetumal”
- German: “Bahía de Chetumal”
- German: “Bucht von Chetumal”
- German: “Chetumal Bay”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ צ’טומל”
- Hungarian: “Chetumali-öböl”
- Italian: “Baia di Chetumal”
- Japanese: “チェトゥマル湾”
- Lithuanian: “Četumalio įlanka”
- Low German: “Bucht von Chetumal”
- Low German: “Bucht vun Chetumal”
- Polish: “Chetumal (zatoka)”
- Polish: “Chetumal”
- Portuguese: “Baía de Chetumal”
- Russian: “Четумаль (бухта)”
- Russian: “Четумаль”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chetumal”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zaljev Chetumal”
- Spanish: “Bahia de chetumal”
- Spanish: “Bahia de Chetumal”
- Spanish: “Bahía de chetumal”
- Spanish: “Bahía de Chetumal”
- Swedish: “Chetumal Bay”
- Ukrainian: “Четумаль (бухта)”
- Ukrainian: “Четумаль”
- Venetian: “Baja de Chetumal”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Man of War Cay and Rocky Point.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Chetumal Bay”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.