Laredo Channel

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| location = British Columbia, Canada

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Laredo Channel is a channel in the North Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, separating Princess Royal Island and Aristazabal Island.{{BCGNIS|28775|Laredo Channel}} It connects with Laredo Sound to the south and Caamaño Sound to the north.{{BCGNIS|28777|Laredo Sound}}{{BCGNIS|38407| Caamaño Sound}} In 1792 the Spanish naval officer Jacinto Caamaño, commanding the frigate Aranzazu, explored the area and named Laredo Channel (Canal de Laredo), probably after the port city of Laredo, Spain.{{cite journal |last= Caamaño |first= Jacinto |author-link = Jacinto Caamaño |journal= The British Columbia Historical Quarterly |date= October 1938 |volume= 2 |issue= 4 |title= The Journal of Jacinto Caamano, Part II |editor-last1= Wagner |editor-first1= Henry R. |editor-last2= Newcombe |editor-first2= W.A. |pages= 293–294 |url= https://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/bchf/bchq_1938_4.pdf |access-date= 13 January 2024}}{{cite book |last1= Akrigg |first1= G.P.V. |last2= Akrigg |first2= Helen B. |date= 1997 |title= British Columbia Place Names |publisher= University of British Columbia Press |isbn= 9780774806374 |page= 150 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=9IP4V-Hyt-4C&pg=PA150 |access-date= 14 January 2024}}{{cite journal |last= Tovell |first= Freeman M. |journal= BC Studies |date= Spring 1998 |volume= 117 |title= Ending the Search for the Mythical Passage of Admiral Fonte: The 1792 Voyage of Jacinto Caamaño |pages= 5–26

|doi= 10.14288/bcs.v0i117.1805

|url= https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/download/1805/1850/7427 |access-date= 13 January 2024}}