The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish-Golfo de México) is a in part landlocked natural object of sea on the southeastern boundary of the North American continent. Geographically speaking, it is attached to the Atlantic Ocean by the Straits of Florida, moving linking the terra firma of Florida and the coral reef of Cuba, and to the Caribbean Sea by the Yucatan Channel, which runs involving the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba. Both these channels are just about 100 miles (160 kilometers) citywide. The gulf's supreme east-west and north-south extents are thereabouts 1,100 and 800 miles, respectively, and it covers an band of in a circle 600,000 village square miles (1,550,000 mall kilometers). To the northwest, north, and northeast, it is delimited by the southern beach of the United States, time to the west, south, and south it is finite by the East Coast of Mexico.
The conditions of the rift area frequently varies from tropical to climatic zone. The twister time period formally runs from June 1 to November 1. Meteorological and oceanographic conditions are conducive during supreme of this period, to the foundation of hurricanes everywhere in the opening. Hurricanes spawned in the South Atlantic may too duck done the body of water at this circumstance. The shores of the Gulf of Mexico are aforementioned to be a foremost surround for aquatic bird and shorebirds. Substantial colonies of notties, boobies, pelicans, and other than seabirds winter along the coasts of Mexico and Cuba, as powerfully as on offshore islands. There is a splashed non-attendance of sailing mammals; the single one of significance, the Caribbean manatee, is decreasing in numeral.