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DE LA LANZA ESPINO, Guadalupe; ORTIZ PEREZ, Mario Arturo  e  CARBAJAL PEREZ, José Luis. Hydro-geomorphological differentiation of coastal systems of the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Invest. Geog [online]. 2013, n.81, pp.33-50. ISSN 2448-7279.

The coastline of both sides of Mexico exceeds 11 000 km, consisting of various landforms that are regionally different in origin, length, and nature, called by the common term of coastal lagoons by different authors and government institutions, and currently called wetlands by international convention (RAMSAR). This study thus differentiates lagoons, estuaries, marshes and bays in the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. In the Gulf of Mexico predominated the coastal lagoons (47.8%) and the last were the bays (1.6%); and in the Pacific the bays and costal lagoons had the same number of this geoforms (14%), approximately.

Palavras-chave : Coastal geoforms; lagoons; bays and estuaries.