Arrecife Tierra Nueva

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Location on Continental Shelf
Inner-Shelf Bank
Width
0.11km
Length
0.16km
Maximum Depth
18.00m

From: INE , 1992; Tunnell, 2007
Tierra Nueva Reef is one of the eight emergent platform type reefs that form the Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano, Veracruz Reef System (VRS), located just one kilometer off the port of Veracruz in the Western Gulf of Mexico. In 1992, the Mexican government declared the system a Natural Protected Area with a National Marine Park status.

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.

  • 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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