Gulf of Paria
The Gulf of Paria is a 7,800 km and Venezuela the remainder. It was originally named the Gulf of the Whale by Christopher Columbus, but the 19th-century whaling industry eliminated whales from the area and populations have never recovered.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Gulf
- Description: semi-enclosed inland sea located between the island of Trinidad and the east coast of Venezuela
- Also known as: “Golfo Triste”
Gulf of Paria
- Categories: bay and body of water
- Location: Trinidad and Tobago, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Welsh—“Gulf of Paria” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “заліў Парыя”
- Belarusian: “Парыя”
- Bulgarian: “Пария (залив)”
- Bulgarian: “Пария”
- Catalan: “golf de Paria”
- Catalan: “Golf de Paria”
- Cebuano: “Gulf of Paria”
- Chinese: “帕里亚湾”
- Chinese: “帕里亞灣”
- Croatian: “Paría”
- Croatian: “Zaljev Paria”
- Dutch: “Golf van Paria”
- Esperanto: “Golfo Paria”
- Estonian: “Paria laht”
- French: “golfe de Paria”
- French: “Golfe de Paria”
- Georgian: “პარია”
- German: “Golf von Paria”
- Hungarian: “Paria-öböl”
- Indonesian: “Teluk Paria”
- Italian: “Golfo di Paria”
- Japanese: “パリア湾”
- Korean: “파리아만”
- Lithuanian: “Parijos įlanka”
- Persian: “خلیج پاریا”
- Polish: “Paria”
- Portuguese: “Golfo de Paria”
- Portuguese: “Golfo de Pária”
- Russian: “залив Париа”
- Russian: “залив Пария”
- Russian: “Париа”
- Russian: “Пария”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Paria”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Paría”
- Spanish: “Boca de la Serpiente”
- Spanish: “Boca del Dragon”
- Spanish: “Boca del Dragón”
- Spanish: “Golfo de Paria”
- Swedish: “Golfo de Paria”
- Swedish: “Pariagolfen”
- Turkish: “Paria Körfezi”
- Ukrainian: “Парія”
- Venetian: “Golfo de Paria”
- Vietnamese: “Vịnh Paria”
- Welsh: “Gwlff Paria”
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