Islas Marias
Islas Marías is a cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean 100 km off the coast of Nayarit, Mexico. The largest of the islands was used as a penal colony and federal prison for most of the 20th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago
- Also known as: “Islas Marías”, “Islas Tres Marías”, “Las Tres Marias”, “Las Tres Marias Islands”, “Los Tres Marias Islands”, and “Tres Marias”
Islas Marias
- Categories: archipelago and landform
- Location: San Blas, Nayarit, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Islas Marias” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر مارياس”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Марыі”
- Catalan: “Islas Marías”
- Chinese: “瑪麗亞群島”
- Dutch: “Maria-eilanden”
- Esperanto: “Insuloj Marías”
- Esperanto: “Islas Marías”
- Estonian: “Maríase saared”
- Finnish: “Islas Marías”
- French: “îles Marías”
- French: “Îles Tres Marías”
- Galician: “Islas Marías”
- German: “Marias-Inseln”
- Hebrew: “איי מריאס”
- Hebrew: “איסלאס מריאס”
- Italian: “Isole Marías”
- Japanese: “イスラス・マリアス”
- Japanese: “マリアス諸島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Islas Marías”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Islas Marías”
- Norwegian: “Islas Marías”
- Persian: “ایلاس ماریاس”
- Polish: “Islas Marías”
- Portuguese: “Islas Marías”
- Russian: “Лас-Трес-Мариас”
- Russian: “Острова Марии”
- Sicilian: “Isole Marías”
- Spanish: “Islas Marias”
- Spanish: “Islas Marías”
- Swedish: “Islas Marías”
- Turkish: “Marías Adaları”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Marías”
- Western Frisian: “Marije-eilannen”
- Wu Chinese: “玛丽亚群岛”
- “Marías Tlālhuāctli”
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