Key facts
- Location
- Pacific Ocean
- Area
- 1.2 km (0.46 sq mi)
- Length
- 1.643 km (1.0209 mi)
- Width
- 0.727 km (0.4517 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 360 m (1180 ft)
- Highest point
- Cerro La Mona
- Department
- Valle del Cauca
- Municipality
- Buenaventura
- Population
- Uninhabited
- Official name
- Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary
- Type
- Natural
- Criteria
- vii, ix
- Region
- Latin America and the Caribbean
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of Malpelo Island
Malpelo is an oceanic island in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 500 km (310 mi) west of the Colombian mainland with a military post defended by the Colombian Armed Forces. It consists of a sheer and barren rock with three high peaks, the highest being the 300 m (980 ft) Cerro de la Mona. The island is about 1.5 kilometres (1 mile) in length from northeast to southwest, and 640 metres (700 yards) across at its widest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Malpelo Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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