Columbus Channel

View over the Columbus Channel from Icacos, Trinidad

The Serpent's Mouth or Columbus Channel, in Spanish Boca de la Serpiente, is a strait lying between Icacos Point in southwest Trinidad and Tobago and the north coast of Venezuela. It leads from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Paria.

The passage was named by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage.[1]

Reference

  1. ↑ Williams, Eric (1942). History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago. Buffalo: Eworld Inc. p. 8. ISBN 9781617590108.

Coordinates: 10°00′N 61°30′W / 10.000°N 61.500°W / 10.000; -61.500

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