The Reef Corridor of the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico - Oceanography & Marine Biology

The reef corridor of the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, is a coastal area  of  the  state  of  Veracruz  structured  by reef ecosystems, are about of 60 known emergent, submerged and marginal reefs from a  biological  corridor  more  than  450  km  long,  that  extend  along  of  that western boundary. The most important reef systems are: The Lobos-Tuxpan Reef System (TLRS) in the northern coastal area, the National Park Veracruz Reef System (NPVRS) in the central coastal area and the Los Turtles Reef System (TRS) in the southern coastal area. These  reefs  are important due to several  oceanographic processes occurred in a broad spectrum of spatial and temporal scales, which  arrange from meters to several hundred kilometers and from periods of seconds to years.

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