The Bay of San Miguel () is a
bay of the
Gulf of Panama
The Gulf of Panama ( es, Golfo de Panamá) is a gulf of the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of Panama, where most of eastern Panama's southern shores adjoin it. The Gulf has a maximum width of , a maximum depth of and the size of . The Pana ...
, located on the
Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...
coast of
Darién Province
Darién (, , ) is a province in Panama whose capital city is La Palma. With an area of , it is located at the eastern end of the country and bordered to the north by the province of Panamá and the region of Kuna Yala. To the south, it is bord ...
in eastern
Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...
.
The bay is located at .
It is fed by the
Tuira River
The Tuira River is located in the Darién Province of eastern Panama. It flows into the Bay of San Miguel at the province capital of La Palma.
It is the largest river in Panama, and one of its tributaries, the Chucunaque River, is the longes ...
. At its southern end is
Cape Garachiné (also known as Point Garachina), and at its northern end is
Punta San Lorenzo (a.k.a. Cape Gardo).
See also
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San Miguel
San Miguel, Panama
Landforms of Darién Province
Gulf of Panama
Panamanian coasts of the Pacific Ocean
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