Chilean Sea

{{Short description|Portion of the Pacific Ocean lying west of the Chilean mainland}}

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File:Tricontinental Chile and the Chilean Sea.png, including the Antarctic claim

{{Legend|#E6DBFF|Extended continental shelf}}]]

The Chilean Sea is the portion of the Pacific Ocean lying west of the Chilean mainland. The official Chilean usage for Chilean Sea was defined on 30 May 1974 when the Diario oficial de la Republica de Chile published Supreme Decree #346, which declared that "the waters surrounding or touching the shores of the national territory shall be known as Mar Chileno."{{cite web | publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs | date=4 June 1974 | url=http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=249151&idVersion=1974-06-04 | title=Decreto 346: "Denomina Mar Chileno a las aguas del mar que bañan el territorio nacional" | access-date=11 December 2012}}

The Chilean Sea contains significant amounts of phosphorite and manganese-iron nodules, which may be potential targets for future seafloor mining.{{Cite journal|title=Potential mineral resources of the Chilean offshore: an overview|journal=Andean Geology|url=http://www.scielo.cl/pdf/andgeol/v47n1/0718-7106-andgeol-47-01-0001.pdf|last1=García|first1=Marcelo|volume=47|pages=1–13|last2=Correa|first2=Jorge|issue=1|year=2020|last3=Maksaev|first3=Víctor|last4=Townley|first4=Brian|doi=10.5027/andgeoV47n1-3260|doi-access=free}}

Continental shelf and extended continental shelf

Presential sea

[[File:Cl-triconti-en.PNG|thumb|left|200px|Map showing the Chilean sea, including Antarctic claim

{{Legend|#A5DEFF|Presential sea}}]]

The face sea, or heritage safeguard sea, is the maritime space that a certain coastal country demarcates, after an oceanopolitical appreciation, in order to indicate to third parties its zone of influence in the high seas adjacent to its exclusive economic zone, where its interests were or could be directly involved.

Without claims of sovereignty, by making a delimitation that includes the effective occupation of the high seas contiguous to its respective oceanic territory, the coastal state shows the interest in preserving said area from abusive uses or from certain activities that, due to its proximity, may affect the marine resources that inhabit its waters, especially, guarding the highly migratory straddling fishery resources from predation, and pollution of the marine habitat.

EEZ of Chile

File:Territorial waters - Chile.svg

Chile's EEZ includes areas around the Desventuradas Islands, Easter Island and the Juan Fernández Islands.

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style="text-align:left;" \| Region ! EEZ Area (km²){{cite web \|last=See Around Us Project \|title=Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) \|date=n.d. \|url=http://www.seaaroundus.org/data/#/eez \|access-date=3 June 2015 \|quote=EEZ waters of: Chile 1,975,760 km², Desventuradas Isl. 449,836 km², Easter Isl. 720,412 km², J. Fernandez, Felix and Ambrosio Isl. 502,524 km²}} ! Land area ! Total
style="text-align:left"\|Mainland \| 1,975,760 \| 755 757 \| 2,731,517
style="text-align:left"\|Desventuradas \| 449 836 \|5 \|449 841
style="text-align:left"\|Easter \| 720 412 \| 164 \| 720 576
style="text-align:left"\|Juan Fernandez \| 502 524 \|100 \|502 624
style="text-align:left"\|Total \| 3,648,532 \| 755 921 \| 4,404,453

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style="text-align:left;" | Region

! EEZ Area (km²){{cite web |last=See Around Us Project |title=Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) |date=n.d. |url=http://www.seaaroundus.org/data/#/eez |access-date=3 June 2015 |quote=EEZ waters of: Chile 1,975,760 km², Desventuradas Isl. 449,836 km², Easter Isl. 720,412 km², J. Fernandez, Felix and Ambrosio Isl. 502,524 km²}}

! Land area

! Total

style="text-align:left"|Mainland

| 1,975,760

| 755 757

| 2,731,517

style="text-align:left"|Desventuradas

| 449 836

|5

|449 841

style="text-align:left"|Easter

| 720 412

| 164

| 720 576

style="text-align:left"|Juan Fernandez

| 502 524

|100

|502 624

style="text-align:left"|Total

| 3,648,532

| 755 921

| 4,404,453

Gallery

File:ReplicaNaoVictoriaMagallanes.jpg|The Ferdinand Magellan's Nao Replica in the Museo Nao Victoria in Punta Arenas Chile, the first ship to sail it

File:Sea of Chile.jpg|The Chilean Sea

File:DuskyDolphin.jpg|A dusky dolphin

References

Category:Seas of the Pacific Ocean

Category:Bodies of water of Chile