Where is Gulf of Mexico? Where does the Gulf of Mexico start?

Where is Gulf of Mexico?

The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is a bay almost entirely enclosed by North America. The Gulf is a marginal sea of the Atlantic ocean and the North-Western part of the American Mediterranean.

The Eastern, Northern and North-Western coast in the United States (in the States of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas), the southwestern and southern coast, is located in Mexico. In the southeast, the Gulf borders Cuba.

Coasts
The coastline of the Gulf of Mexico is lined with numerous bays. A significant Arm of the Gulf is to the south the Bay of Campeche (span. Bahía de Campeche) in Mexico. Some rivers flow into the Gulf, the largest is the Mississippi River.

Water
The Gulf of Mexico is connected to the Caribbean Sea via the Yucatán Strait between Mexico and Cuba and to the Atlantic Ocean via the Florida Strait between the USA and Cuba. An important ocean current in the Gulf of Mexico is the Loop Current, a loop-shaped warm ocean current that begins at the Yucatán Strait. In the Florida Straits the Loop Current in the Florida current, and is thus one of the starting points of the Gulf stream.

The total surface area of the Gulf of Mexico is about 1,550,000 km2, of which the southern third lies in the tropics. The Mexican basin in the center reaches a depth of 4375 m.

The continental shelf is relatively wide at most points along the coast.

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