List of islands of Mexico
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Gulf of MexicoGulf of MexicoThe Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...
- Arcas Keys
- Carmen Island
- Great Island
- Isla HolboxIsla HolboxHolbox is an island in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located on the north coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is approximately 12 kilometers long and 1.5 kilometers wide, and it is separated from the mainland by a shallow lagoon that is home to flamingos, pelicans and other rich birdlife...
- Scorpion ReefScorpion ReefScorpion Reef is a reef, located in the Campeche Bank . It is the largest reef in the Southern Gulf of Mexico. The reef contains five vegetated islands; Isla Pérez, Isla Desertora, Isla Pájaros, Isla Chica and Isla Desterrada. Isla Pérez is the only inhabited island, and also is the site of a...
(Arrecife Alacranes) - Western Triangle Keys
- BermejaBermejaBermeja is an islet lying off the north coast of the Yucatán peninsula according to several maps of the Gulf of Mexico from the 16th to the 19th centuries...
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Pacific CoastPacific OceanThe Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
- CedrosCedros IslandCedros Island is a Mexican island in the Pacific Ocean....
- Isla CoronadosCoronado IslandsThe Coronado Islands are a group of four islands off the northwest coast of the Mexican state of Baja California. Battered by the wind and waves, they are largely infertile and uninhabited except for a small military detachment and a few lighthouse keepers...
- Islas San BenitoIslas San BenitoThe Islas San Benito lie in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of the Mexican state of Baja California, 25 km west of Cedros Island. They are part of the Cedros Island delegación, a subdivision of Ensenada , Baja California....
- Isla Todos SantosIsla Todos SantosIsla Todos Santos is a pair of islands about 19.3km off Ensenada, Baja California at best known for surfing. Access is only by boat, which can be rented out from Ensenada, or La Bufadora. The waves off the smallest island are some of the biggest waves in the North American continent, rivaled in...
- Isla NatividadIsla NatividadIsla Natividad is an island in the Pacific Ocean 6 km west off Punta Eugenia, the northwestern headland of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. 200 meters off its northwestern end lies Roca María at , with an area of 0.074 km²...
- Santa Margarita
- Islas Marías
- Isla San Martin
Gulf of CaliforniaGulf of CaliforniaThe Gulf of California is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland...
- Isla Ángel de la GuardaIsla Ángel de la GuardaIsla Ángel de la Guarda, also called Archangel Island, and called Xazl Iimt east of Bahía de los Ángeles, and separated from the Baja California Peninsula by the Canal de Ballenas . It is the second largest of the eleven Midriff Islands or Islas Grandes. It is part of the state of Baja California,...
- Isla Espíritu SantoIsla Espíritu SantoIsla Espíritu Santo is an island in the Gulf of California, off the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. It is connected to Isla Partida by a narrow isthmus....
- San EstebanSan Esteban IslandSan Esteban Island is a small island in the Gulf of California, Mexico, located to the southwest of Tiburón Island. It is part of the Municipality of Hermosillo in Sonora, and has a land area of 39.773 km² , the 15th-largest island in Mexico. It is located in the Sea of Cortés...
- Magdalena
- TiburónTiburón IslandTiburón Island is both the largest island in the Gulf of California and the largest island in Mexico, with an area of . It was made a nature reserve in 1963 by President Adolfo López Mateos. Tiburón is Spanish for shark. The etymology of the Seri name is unknown...
- Isla San Lorenzo
- Isla San Pedro Nolasco
- Isla Lobos
- Isla Huivili
- Isla San Ignacio
- Isla Saliaca
- Isla Tachichilte
- Isla Altamura
- Isla CerralvoCerralvo IslandJacques Cousteau Island is the official name recently applied to an uninhabited island, , located off the coast of the Cerralvo Channel near the city of La Paz in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.It is eighteen miles long with a land area of 136.498 km² , and is the...
- Isla PartidaIsla PartidaIsla Partida is connected to Isla Espíritu Santo by a narrow isthmus. These two islands, in the Gulf of California, are protected by UNESCO as biospheres. They are located a short boat ride from La Paz, which lies on the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico...
- Isla San Francisco
- Island Santa Cruz
- Isla Montserrat
- Isla San Diego
- Isla Santa Catalina
- Isla Carmen *not related to "Carmen Island" in the Gulf.
- Isla San Marcos
- Isla TortugaIsla TortugaIsla Tortuga is an island in the Gulf of California, created relatively recently in geologic terms by the volcanism associated with the East Pacific Rise. It lies east-northeast of the city of Santa Rosalía, in Mulegé Municipality. It has a surface area of 11.374 km² .-References:*...
- Isla San Luis
- Isla Miramar
Oceanic Islands (all in the Pacific OceanPacific OceanThe Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
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- Guadalupe IslandGuadalupe IslandGuadalupe Island, or Isla Guadalupe is a volcanic island located 241 kilometers off the west coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and some 400 kilometers southwest of the city of Ensenada in Baja California state, in the Pacific Ocean...
- Revillagigedo IslandsRevillagigedo IslandsThe Revillagigedo Islands or Revillagigedo Archipelago are a group of four volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean, known for their unique ecosystem...
- Rocas AlijosRocas AlijosRocas Alijos are a group of tiny, steep and barren volcanic islets or above-water rocks in the Pacific Ocean at . They are part of Comondú municipality of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, and situated about 300 km west of the mainland. The total surface area is less than...
See also
- List of islands
- Coastal islands of Alta and Baja CaliforniaCoastal islands of Alta and Baja CaliforniaThis is a list of notable Coastal islands of the Californias - coastal islands west of California and the Baja California Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. California is in the United States; and the Baja California Peninsula includes the states of Baja California Sur and Baja California in Mexico...