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 is located in Venezuela
La Guaira Bank
La Guaira Bank
La Guaira Bank is located in Caribbean
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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