Gulf of Fonseca
The Gulf of Fonseca, a part of the Pacific Ocean, is a gulf in Central America, bordering El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The waters of the gulf are shared among all three countries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bay
- Description: gulf of the Pacific Ocean in Central America
- Also known as: “Bahía de Fonseca”, “Bay of Fonseca”, “Golfo de Chorotega”, and “Golfo de Fonseca”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meanguera del Golfo.
Meanguera del Golfo
Town
Photo: Everthm007, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Meanguera del Golfo is a municipality in the La Unión Department of El Salvador. It is located 30 kilometres from La Unión municipality and 213 km from San Salvador on the island of Meanguera in the Gulf of Fonseca.
Gulf of Fonseca
- Category: body of water
- Location: Honduras, Central America, North America
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Latitude
13.13536° or 13° 8′ 7″ northLongitude
-87.73575° or 87° 44′ 9″ westOpen location code
765J47P7+4POpenStreetMap ID
node 2700981973OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
3609679Wikidata ID
Q933264
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Gulf of Fonseca” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خليج فونسيكا”
- Armenian: “Ֆոնսեկա”
- Basque: “Fonsecako golkoa”
- Belarusian: “Заліў Фансека”
- Belarusian: “Фансека”
- Breton: “Pleg-mor Fonseca”
- Bulgarian: “Фонсека (залив)”
- Bulgarian: “Фонсека”
- Catalan: “golf de Fonseca”
- Catalan: “Golf de Fonseca”
- Cebuano: “Golfo de Fonseca”
- Chinese: “丰塞卡湾”
- Chinese: “豐塞卡灣”
- Croatian: “Zaljev Fonseca”
- Czech: “Fonsecký záliv”
- Czech: “Golfo de Fonseca”
- Danish: “Fonsecabugten”
- Dutch: “golf van Fonseca”
- Dutch: “Golf van Fonseca”
- Esperanto: “Golfo de Fonseca”
- Finnish: “Fonsecanlahti”
- French: “golfe de Fonseca”
- French: “Golfe de Fonseca”
- Galician: “Golfo de Fonseca”
- German: “Golf von Fonseca”
- Greek: “Κόλπος του Φονσέκα”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ פונסקה”
- Icelandic: “Fonseca-flói”
- Iloko: “Golpo ti Fonseca”
- Indonesian: “Teluk Fonseca”
- Irish: “Murascaill Fonseca”
- Italian: “Golfo di Fonseca”
- Japanese: “フォンセカ湾”
- Korean: “폰세카 만”
- Korean: “폰세카만”
- Latvian: “Fonsekas līcis”
- Lithuanian: “Fonsekos įlanka”
- Macedonian: “Фонсека”
- Marathi: “फोन्सेकाचा आखात”
- Marathi: “फोन्सेकाचे आखात”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fonsecagolfen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fonsecabukta”
- Norwegian: “Fonsecagolfen”
- Panjabi: “ਫ਼ੋਨਸੇਕਾ ਦੀ ਖਾੜੀ”
- Persian: “خلیج فونسکا”
- Polish: “Fonseca”
- Polish: “Zatoka Fonseca”
- Portuguese: “Golfo de Fonseca”
- Russian: “Залив Фонсека”
- Russian: “Фонсека”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zaljev Fonseca”
- Slovak: “Fonseca”
- Slovenian: “Zaliv Fonseca”
- Spanish: “Choluteca”
- Spanish: “Golfo de Fonseca”
- Swahili: “Ghuba ya Fonseca”
- Swedish: “Golfo de Fonseca (bukt i Honduras)”
- Swedish: “Golfo de Fonseca”
- Turkish: “Fonseca Körfezi”
- Ukrainian: “Затока Фонсека”
- Ukrainian: “Фонсека”
- Venetian: “Golfo de Fonseca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Golpo han Fonseca”
- Western Panjabi: “فونسیکا دی کھاڑی”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Guerrero and El Corozal.
Notable Places Nearby
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