San Juanito (island)
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| Waters | East pacific | |
| Archipelago | Islas Marías | |
| Geographical location | 21 ° 45 '4 " N , 106 ° 40' 27" W | |
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| length | 5.1 km | |
| width | 2.6 km | |
| surface | 9.105 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
San Juanito ( Spanish Isla San Juanito , the diminutive of San Juan ) is the northernmost island of the Mexican Islas Marías in the eastern Pacific Ocean . Administratively it belongs to the municipality of San Blas in the state of Nayarit .
geography
San Juanito is located about 70 km off the west coast of Mexico in the extreme north of the Islas Marías, about 5 km north of María Madre , the largest island in the archipelago. The uninhabited island is around 5 km long, up to 2.6 km wide and has an area of 9.105 km². This makes it the smallest of the four main islands, but there are still five cliffs in the archipelago with a much smaller area.
Animal world (fauna)
In contrast to María Madre and María Magdalena, the Tres Marias deer vole ( Peromyscus madrensis ), which is endemic to the Islas Marías, occurs frequently on San Juanito, as the island is free of introduced rats .
Individual evidence
- ^ Page of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) from the Wayback archive of July 22, 2011, accessed on September 20, 2014.