| has gloss | eng: The Cariaco Basin is an east-west trending pull-apart basin (Schubert, 1982) located on the continental shelf off the eastern coast of Venezuela. It is a deep depression composed of two sub-basins, the eastern basin and the western basin, each of ~1400m depth, separated by a saddle of ~900m. To the south, the basin confines with the wide (~50 km) Unare Platform; to the east with Margarita Island, Cubagua Island, and the Araya Peninsula; to the north with Tortuga Island and the Tortuga Bank; on the west with Cape Codera and the rocks known as Farallón Centinela. |
