La Guaira Bank

La Guaira Bank
Placer de la Guaira

Submerged bank

La Guaira Bank (Caribbean)

Sea Caribbean
Area La Guaira
Country Venezuela
State Vargas State
Minimum depth 60 m
Languages
 • Official Spanish

La Guaira Bank (Spanish: Placer de la Guaira),[1] is a large, completely submerged bank in Venezuela. It is located in the Caribbean Sea 20 km to the NNE off the northern shore of La Guaira.[2]

This reef has an excellent reputation for deep-sea angling.[3] Currents create an upwelling of nutrients that attracts large pelagic fish such as sailfish, marlin, yellowfin tuna and mahi-mahi.[4]

Geography

The La Guaira Bank is a Pleistocene structure that is wholly submerged. It is 19 km long and 6 km wide. Its depths range between 60 and 70 m, rising from the 260 m deep surrounding seabed of the continental platform.[5] La Guaira Bank is located close to the Carayaca Bank (Spanish: Placer de Carayaca), another structure that rises between 50 and 100 m from the surface.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pesquería artesanal de istiofóridos en Venezuela
  2. ↑ La Guaira - Geographical Names
  3. ↑ Fishing El Placer Bank, la Guaira, Venezuela
  4. ↑ Vargas State Tourism - "El Placer¨, un paraiso para la pesca de altura
  5. ↑ Información Meteoceánica; Fachada Caribeña - Sector Oriental
  6. ↑ Catch Rates for Sailfish (Istiophorus albicans) from the Small Scale Drift Gillnet Fishery of La Guaira, Venezuela: Period 1991-2007

Coordinates: 10°50′N 67°7′W / 10.833°N 67.117°W / 10.833; -67.117

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