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In order to enter the Maritime Port Facility, you have to go through the access channel, which has two different parts: the outer channel, 150 meters wide and with a length of 1.85 nautical miles (3.4 kilometers) and the inner channel, 115 meters wide and with a length of 1.40 miles (2.6 km) until you reach the maneuvering dock with a length of 1.4 km. and 366 meters wide, parallel to the berths of the port.
The entire access is properly marked by beacons, according to regulations of the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (its acronym in English is IALA), with a system of marine beacons for region B, consisting of 15 floating beacons including the pilot station, and in addition six cascading beacons and the main lighthouse located on the island of Cardón, thus ensuring the safe navigation day and night. The minimum depth in the channels, maneuvering dock and berths are as follows:
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Canal / Dock
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Depth
MSL
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Maximum depth
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Low tide
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Average
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High tide
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Outer Channel
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Atra
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12.90
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10.10
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11.70
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12.60
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| Inner Channel |
12.10
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9.30
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10.90
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11.80
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Maneuvering dock
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12.60
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9.80
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11.40
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12.30
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Band transport
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1
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10.70
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10.70
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7.90
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9.50
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Liquid Cargo
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5
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12.10
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9.30
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10.90
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11.80
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Containers
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4
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10.00
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7.30
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8.80
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9.70
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General cargo
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2
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12.20
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9.40
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11.00
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11.90
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3
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9.90
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10.80
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Tides: The Tide has a regular half day rhytm with an average daily difference between the highest and lowest tide of 3.11 m (1.5 BMSL and SMSL 1.61).
Swell: The maximum height of the waves off the coast of Corinto (open sea) during one 12 hour storm per year reaches 3.93 m and during a 12-hour storm that occurs every ten years reaches 4.94 m arriving with average intervals of 9.1 seconds.
Currents: The rising currents whose Northwest direction reaches speeds of 0.8 knots per hour, whereas with diminishing tides velocity reaches up to 3 knots per hour in the berthing area.
Climate: With a dry tropical climate and small seasonal variations, the temperature varies throughout the year between 25 and 37 º C, the relative air humidity ranges between 47% (March) and 97% (November) and the region receives an amount of rainfall that varies per year between 1200 and 2000 mm, generally distributed between the months of May and November.
Protective Construction: In 1993, a 500 m long breakwater was built at the west side of the port using rock material, aiming to prevent sand sedimentation in the Banana Terminal and in the Outer Channel and to protect the beach from this sector, reinforcing the dam for Coastal Protection over a distance of 3000 m with 2.0 million m3 of sand.
NAVIGATIONAL ASSISTANCE
To provide security to skippers of the various ships visiting the port, Puerto Corinto has been equipped with modern navigational aids. These navigational aids comply with international standards, such as the "IALA" System (A - B). “In our port “type "B" is used.” It consists of a set of red and green buoys, placed along a channel. The red ones remain to the ships starboard when it enters the port and to the port side when it leaves.
