Dragons Mouth
The Bocas del Dragón are the series of straits separating the Gulf of Paria from the Caribbean Sea. There are four Bocas, from west to east: The passage was named by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage.
- Type: Marine channel
- Description: body of water
- Also known as: “Boca de Dragos”, “Boca de Navios”, “Boca del Drago”, “Boca del Dragos”, “Boca Navíos”, “Bocas de Dragos”, “Bocas del Drago”, “Bocas del Dragón”, “Cieśnina Smoków”, “Drachenschlund”, “Dragon’s Mouths”, and “The Dragon’s Mouths”
Dragons Mouth
- Categories: channel, strait, and body of water
- Location: Trinidad and Tobago, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
10.69165° or 10° 41′ 30″ north
Longitude
-61.82007° or 61° 49′ 12″ west
Open location code
772WM5RH+MX
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Dragons Mouth” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dragons Mouths”
- Chinese: “龙口海峡”
- Croatian: “Bocas del Dragon”
- Croatian: “Bocas del Dragón”
- Dutch: “Bocas del Dragón”
- French: “bouches du Dragon”
- French: “Bouches du Dragon”
- Italian: “Bocche del Drago”
- Japanese: “ボカス・デル・ドラゴン海峡”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Smoka”
- Portuguese: “Bocas do Dragão”
- Spanish: “Bocas del Dragón”
- Spanish: “Boca del Dragón” (historical)
- Swedish: “Bocas del Dragón”
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