Rincón Bay (

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: ''Bahía de Rincón'') is the widest

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, ci ...

in the southern coast of

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, located along the coasts of the municipalities of Salinas and Santa Isabel. The bay receives the flow of many rivers and creeks such as the Cayures, Jueyes and Nigua rivers. The Jauca Bay is a smaller

cove A cove is a small bay or coastal inlet. They usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often situated within a larger bay. Small, narrow, sheltered bays, inlets, creek (tidal), creeks, or recesses in a coast ...

located within the Rincón Bay in Jauca, Santa Isabel. The bay is also home to a number of small islands and keys covered in

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forests (protected as the Punta Petrona Nature Reserve and the Aguirre State Forest) which serve as the habitat to numerous species such as the

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. Some of the settlements found in the bay are Jauca in the municipality of Santa Isabel, and Las Ochenta and Playa de Salinas in the municipality of Salinas.

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