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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Cancún on the Mayan Riviera in Mexico

15 April 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Cancún sign © World Wide Wilson - Britainneedsyou/cc-by-sa-4.0

Cancún sign © World Wide Wilson – Britainneedsyou/cc-by-sa-4.0

Cancún is a city in southeastern Mexico, located on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is a major world-renowned tourist destination, as well as being the seat of the municipality of Benito Juárez. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, and is one of the easternmost points in Mexico. There are two possible translations of Cancún, based on the Mayan pronunciation. The first translation is “nest of snakes or pot.” The second version and less accepted is “place of the gold snake”.   read more…

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