Isla de Patos
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| Waters | Bocas del Dragón, Caribbean Sea | |
| Geographical location | 10 ° 38 '18 " N , 61 ° 51' 50" W | |
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| length | 2.09 km | |
| width | 450 m | |
| surface | 60 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 100 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Isla de Patos ( Eng . Duck Island ) is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea , about 550 km east of Caracas , the capital of Venezuela .
history
The Isla de Patos, simply Patos in English, belonged to the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago at the beginning of the 20th century , but Great Britain ceded the island to Venezuela with the Anglo-Venezuelan Treaty (Island of Patos) Act of February 26, 1942, which it struck the federal administrative unit Dependencias Federales .
geography
Isla de Patos is located in the Gulf of Paria , just eight kilometers east of the coast of the Venezuelan state of Sucre and 20 km west of the northwestern tip of Trinidad and 10.3 km west-southwest of the island of Chacachacare , the closest Trinidadian island (or from the immediately offshore Bolo Rocks with Diamond Rock). The island is about 1180 m long, 620 m wide and has a land area of 0.25 km². It reaches a height of about 100 m above sea level.
Isla de Patos, view from Chaguaramas (Trinidad)
on the left the Isla Patos - the mountains of Venezuela further to the west - the islands of Chacachacare and Monos - on the right in the picture Trinidad (Chaguaramas).
Trinidadian settlers on Patos (1910)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Legislation.gov.uk: Anglo-Venezuelan Treaty (Island of Patos) Act 1942. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
