Arrecife Santiaguillo

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Location on Continental Shelf
Inner-Shelf Bank
Area of Coverage
1.01km2
Width
0.25km
Length
0.37km
Maximum Depth
45.00m

From: INE, 1992; NOAA, 2004; Tunnell, 2007
Santiaguillo is one of the 12 emergent platform type reefs that form the Southern Veracruz Reef System, located off the fishing village of Anton Lizardo in the western Gulf of Mexico. In 1992, the Mexican government declared the system a Natural Protected Area with a National Marine Park status. It is positioned approximately 20 km from the mainland and it is composed almost totally of coral rubble (no sand). It has an island associated with it that bears the same name, Isla Santiaguillo, which does not have vegetation except for Sesuvium.

References

  • Instituto Nacional de Ecologia (INE). 1992. DECRETO por el que se declara área natural protegida con el carácter de Parque Marino Nacional, la zona conocida como Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano. Web accessed on Feb. 2, 2004.

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2004. NOAA Fisheries. National Marine Fisheries Service, International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI).

  • Tunnell, J.W., Jr. 2007. Reef Distribution (chapter 2). In Tunnell, J.W. Jr., Chavez, E.O. and Withers, K. (eds) Coral Reefs of the Southern Gulf of Mexico. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 216 p.

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