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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Paria, Gulf of

Andrea Gioia

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
October 2020

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved.date: 09 May 2021

Subject(s):
Sovereignty — Continental shelf — Exclusive economic zone — Innocent passage — Bays — Delimitation — UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) — State succession, international agreements — Territory, acquisition and transfer

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 The Gulf of Paria (‘Gulf’; Bays and Gulfs) is a relatively shallow inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the north-east coast of Venezuela and the west coast of the island of Trinidad, part of the former British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago, which became independent in 1962 (Decolonization: British Territories). The Gulf extends about 80 miles from west to east and about 40 miles from north to south. It communicates with the Caribbean Sea, to the north, and with the open Atlantic, to the south-west, through two channels, each of which is less than 6 miles wide...
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