Scorpion Reef
Scorpion Reef is an atoll containing a small group of islets in the Gulf of Mexico, about 125 kilometres off the northern coast of the state of Yucatán, Mexico.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Reef
- Description: reef in the Gulf of Mexico
- Also known as: “Alacran Reef”, “Arrecife Alacran”, “Islas de los Alacranes”, and “Islas Pérez”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arrecifes de Alacranes National Park.
Arrecifes de Alacranes National Park
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Arrecife de Alacranes is a reef located 125 km north of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The reef is a designated national park that, because of its remote location, is visited only by serious scuba divers and very enthusiastic birdwatchers.
Scorpion Reef
- Categories: atoll and landform
- Location: Progreso Municipality, Yucatán, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Scorpion Reef” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Arrecife Alacranes”
- Arabic: “رصيف العقرب”
- Arabic: “رَصِيفُ العَقْرَبِ”
- Catalan: “escull Alacranes”
- Cebuano: “Arrecife Alacrán”
- Dutch: “Arrecife Alacranes”
- French: “Arrecife Alacrán”
- German: “Arrecife Alacranes”
- Hungarian: “Arrecife Alacranes Nemzeti Park”
- Japanese: “アラクラネス岩礁国立公園”
- Macedonian: “Скорписки Гребен”
- Persian: “صخره عقرب”
- Spanish: “Arrecife Alacranes”
- Swedish: “Arrecife Alacrán”
- Swedish: “Arrecife Alacranes”
- Ukrainian: “Риф Скорпіона”
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