Jacques Cousteau, the new name of a Mexican island

 

Mexican Cerralvo Island, located in the Gulf of California off the coast of Baja California Sur, will be named after Jacques Cousteau today, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). The decision was published in the Official Gazette (DOF) and did not offer reasons explaining the name change.

 

The INEGI said that they will take the necessary measures to register the name change of the Cerralvo Island in the National Registry of Geographic Information, which handles all the "data of the continental reliefs, insular and submarine" in the archipelago.

 

The French explorer Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997) spent much time researching marine life in the area of the Sea of Cortez, located in the Gulf of California.

 

For this reason, on June 22 the Jacques Cousteau Observatory of Coastal Seas in Mexico was inaugurated in the city of La Paz, capital of the state of Baja California Sur, one of its missions will be to study the impact of climate change in the area.

 

In Mexico, the islands, keys and reefs are directly dependent on the federal executive branch.

 

 

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