La Guaira Bank

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]

La Guaira Bank

Placer de la Guaira
Submerged bank
La Guaira Bank
La Guaira Bank
Coordinates: 10°50′N 67°7′W
SeaCaribbean
AreaLa Guaira
CountryVenezuela
StateVargas State
Minimum depth60 m
Languages
 • OfficialSpanish

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" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  6. Catch Rates for Sailfish (Istiophorus albicans) from the Small Scale Drift Gillnet Fishery of La Guaira, Venezuela: Period 1991-2007
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