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Columbus Channel

The Columbus Channel or Serpent's Mouth, is a strait lying between Icacos Point in southwest and the north coast of . It leads from the Atlantic Ocean to the .
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: strait in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Also known as: “Serpent’s Mouth” and “Serpents Mouth”

Columbus Channel

Latitude
9.81997° or 9° 49′ 12″ north
Longitude
-61.42859° or 61° 25′ 43″ west
Open location code
67XWRH9C+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 809376144
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
3574751
Wiki­data ID
Q2878422
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Satellite Map

Discover Columbus Channel from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Columbus Channel” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Boka-de-la-Serpe boğazı”
  • Basque: “Kolon kanala”
  • Catalan: “Canal de Colon”
  • Cebuano: “Columbus Channel”
  • Chinese: “蛇口海峡”
  • Croatian: “Kolumbov kanal”
  • Dutch: “Boca de la Serpiente”
  • Georgian: “კოლუმბის არხი”
  • German: “Kolumbus-Kanal”
  • Indonesian: “Selat Kolumbus”
  • Italian: “Canale di Colombo”
  • Japanese: “コロンバス海峡”
  • Japanese: “コロンブス海峡”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolumbo sąsiauris”
  • Polish: “Cieśnina Węża”
  • Portuguese: “Canal de Colombo”
  • Russian: “Бока-де-ла-Сьерпе (пролив Колумба)”
  • Russian: “Бока-де-ла-Сьерпе”
  • Russian: “Канал Колумба”
  • Spanish: “Canal de Colon”
  • Spanish: “Canal de Colón”
  • Ukrainian: “Бока-де-ла-Сьєрпе”
  • Ukrainian: “Канал Колумба”
  • Ukrainian: “протока Колумба”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Columbus Channel”. Photo: Kalamazadkhan, CC BY-SA 3.0.