🇲🇽🐚 House of Chalchiuhtlicue 🌊🌴 (75 views, 1 replies)
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The "Gulf of Mexico" was called Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl or House of Chalchiuhtlicue (the deity of the seas) by the Aztecs.The Mayas called it nahá - the "great water".
Over centuries, this crucial waterway has borne a variety of names, reflecting the shifting tides of exploration, colonization and indigenous presence. Further names were:
Sea of the North (Mar del Norte)
Gulf of Florida (Golfo de Florida)
Gulf of Cortés (Golfo de Cortés)
Gulf of St. Michael (Sinus S. Michaelis)
Gulf of Yucatán (Golfo de Iucatan)
Cathayan Sea (Mare Cathaynum)
Yucatán Sea (Mare Iuchatanicum)
Gulf of New Spain (Golfo de Nueva España)
Great Antillean Gulf (Sinus Magnus Antillarum)
Mexican Sound (Seno Mexicano)...
The change through Executive Order 14172 does not apply in an international context.
The Gulf of America name is effective for US federal agencies only.
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