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Rosario Bank

Coordinates: 18°30′N 84°04′W / 18.500°N 84.067°W / 18.500; -84.067
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Rosario Bank
Placer El Rosario
Submerged bank
Rosario Bank is located in Central America
Rosario Bank
Rosario Bank (Central America)
Coordinates: 18°30'00.0"N 84°04'00.0"W
SeaCaribbean
Country Honduras
Minimum depth18 m
GeologyCayman Ridge
Special clauseAnnex B, commercial fishing for domestic trade Cayman Islands (authorized: Lutjanus campechanus and Epinephelus lanceolatus; prohibited: crustaceans and Mollusca), annual fishing quota 25 MT, fishing vessels ≤100 ft, under established regulations.

Rosario Bank is a submerged former atoll in the southern Caribbean Sea, located less than 20 km south of Misteriosa Bank. It lies within Honduras's exclusive economic zone.

Rosario Bank is roughly rectangular in extent, being 16 kilometers long east-west, and eight kilometers wide. It has depths of 18 to 64 meters.[1] The distance to the Honduran mainland at Punta Patuca in the south is 290 km, and to Banco Chinchorro off the Belize mainland in the west is about 330 km. The nearest dry land is on the Swan Islands, 112 km to the south.

It is part of a cluster of seamounts of the Cayman mountain range contained in Honduras (Misteriosa, Rosario, Maud, Albion and Viciosas).

References

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  1. ^ Sailing Directions enroute, Pub. 148

18°30′N 84°04′W / 18.500°N 84.067°W / 18.500; -84.067