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Banco Chinchorro is an atoll reef lying off the southeast coast of the Municipality of Othón P. Blanco in Quintana Roo, Mexico, near Belize. It was featured throughout the 2009 semi-documentary film ''Alamar'' by Pedro González-Rubio. ==Geography== The reef lies in Mexican waters offshore in the Caribbean Sea, or about east of the city of Chetumal. It is approximately long from north to south, and approximately wide at its widest point. It covers an area of . The atoll has three islands, with an aggregate land area of : #Cayo Norte (actually two separate islets) (0.9 km²) #Cayo Central (5.6 km²) #Cayo Lobos (southernmost) (0.2 km²) The natural vegetation of the islands is largely mangrove near the shore shading into open woodland more than from the shore. There is a caiman reserve on the southernmost (and biggest) island. The islands (in common with many isolated tropical islands) are thickly populated with small crabs, which are tame and can be trodden on inadvertently by visitors. Some of the islands are inhabited by fishermen, who live in dwellings on stilts about offshore to circumvent local regulations forbidding private construction.〔''Lonely Planet Guide Mexico'', Lonely Planet publications, Melbourne, (2005)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Banco Chinchorro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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