Gulf of Mexico

6 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Paseo del Prado in Havana, La Habana, Cuba © Tacorontey/cc-by-sa-4.0

Paseo del Prado in Havana, La Habana, Cuba © Tacorontey/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the southeast by Cuba. The coastal areas along the Southern U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, which border the Gulf on the north, are occasionally referred to as the “Third Coast” of the United States (in addition to its Atlantic and Pacific coasts), but more often as “the Gulf Coast”.   read more…

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Mobile in Alabama

3 July 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

Downtown Mobile © Altairisfar

Downtown Mobile © Altairisfar

Mobile is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama. The population within the city limits was 195,000 as of 2010, making it the third most populous city in the State of Alabama, the most populous in Mobile County, and the largest municipality on the Gulf Coast between New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Petersburg, Florida. Alabama’s only saltwater port, Mobile is located at the head of the Mobile Bay and the north-central Gulf Coast. The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city beginning with the city as a key trading center between the French and Native Americans down to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States.   read more…

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