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Gulf Of Fonseca Gulfs are defined as a portion of the ocean that penetrates the land. Covering an area of about 1,800 km 2, the Gulf of Fonseca is a portion of the Pacific Ocean located in Northern Central America. The Gulf of Fonseca is a shallow water body that is bordered by Honduras in the northeast, El Salvador in the northwest, and Nicaragua in the southeast. Gulf of Fonseca Map Important Geographical Features The Gulf of Fonseca stretches inward from the Pacific Ocean for approximately 65 km and the gulf’s major part is shallow, which has an estimated average depth of about 15 m. The entrance of the gulf is marked by Cape Cosigüina in Nicaragua and by Cape Amapala in El Salvador. The gulf’s coastline extends for about 261 km, of which 185 km is in Honduras, 29 km in El Salvador, and 40 km in Nicaragua. The Gulf of Fonseca is situated in a typical subtropical climate zone with alternating rainy and dry seasons. During the rainy season from M ....
Celebrating the Knight s Centennial in Cuba This article appeared in the July 2009 issue of Columbia and is reprinted here with permission of the Knights of Columbus, New Haven, Conn and of Maria de Lourdes Ruiz Scaperlanda, author. by María de Lourdes Ruiz Scaperlanda The year was 1909. Plastic was invented. Censorship of motion pictures began. And 53-year-old American explorer Robert E. Peary became the first to reach the North Pole. It was also the year that the Order founded chapters in both Cuba and Panama. Between the 1899 census and 1908 the population of the island of Cuba, celebrated as “The Pearl of the Antilles,” increased by 30 %, reaching over two million. Roughly the size of England and smaller than Virginia, the Caribbean island struggled to come into its own, politically, economically, culturally, after a fierce battle for independence from Spain. The Catholic Church in Cuba was no exception. ....