Banco Chinchorro

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 agg…