Roca Partida
| Roca Partida | ||
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 (the Cabeza Sur in the southeast is obscured) |
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Revillagigedo Islands | |
| Geographical location | 19 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 112 ° 4 ′ 20 ″ W | |
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| length | 91 m | |
| width | 45 m | |
| surface | 0.3 ha | |
| Highest elevation | Cabeza Conejo 34 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Roca Partida is an uninhabited rock island in the eastern Pacific Ocean and at the same time the smallest of the Revillagigedo Islands belonging to Mexico . It is a good 800 km from the Mexican coast and about 107 km west of Socorro , the largest island in this group of islands .
The rocky island, which is distinctively divided into two halves, is 91 m long, 45 m wide and has an area of 0.3 ha (0.003 km²). It represents the tip of an extinct volcano and rises in the Cabeza Conejo , the northwestern peak, up to 34 m from the Pacific, while the Cabeza Sur rises 25 m in the southeast. The isthmus, which is only around 10 m narrow between the two peaks, reaches a saddle height of around six meters.
In analogy to the island of Clarión, there are contradicting information about the discovery of the Roca Partida: The Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos is mentioned, who is said to have sighted the rock for the first time in 1569; José Camacho, on the other hand, is said to have discovered the rock in 1779.
Roca Partida is part of the Biosphere Reserve Reserva de la Biosfera Archipiélago de Revillagigedo, created in 1994, and breeding area for numerous sea birds .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Victor Busteros Angeles: Expedición al México de Ultramar. Day 12, domingo 24-04. Roca Partida
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Ecología - Reserva de la Biosfera Archipiélago de Revillagigedo ( Memento of the original of July 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish)
- ↑ CONANP Reserva de la Biosfera Archipiélago de Revillagigedo ( Memento of January 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
