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Line 1: {{Short description\|Cape in Central America}} '''Cabo Gracias a Dios''' is a [[cape (geography)\|cape]] located on northeastern coast of [[Central America]], variously called the [[Mosquito Coast]] and [[La Mosquitia]]. It is the point where the [[Rio Coco]] flows into the [[Caribbean]], and is the end of the [[border]] of the [[Nicaragua]]n [[Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte]] and the [[Honduras\|Honduran]] department also known as [[Gracias a Dios department\|Gracias a Dios]]. ▼ {{refimprove\|date=January 2014}} [[Image:Cape Gracias a Dios.jpg\|thumb\|Seen from space]] ▲'''Cabo Gracias a Dios''' is a [[cape (geography)\|cape]] located onin ~~northeastern~~the middle of the east coast of [[Central America]], within what is variously called the [[Mosquito Coast]] and [[La Mosquitia (Honduras)\|La Mosquitia]]. It is the point where the [[Rio Coco]] flows into the [[Caribbean]], and is the ~~end of the~~ [[border]] ofbetween the [[Nicaragua]]n [[~~Región~~North ~~Autónoma~~Caribbean ~~del~~Coast ~~Atlántico~~Autonomous ~~Norte~~Region]] and the [[Honduras\|Honduran]] department also known as [[Gracias a Dios department\|Gracias a Dios]]. The point was designated as the ~~endpoint~~official ~~of the Honduras - Nicaragua~~[[Honduras–Nicaragua border]] by an award of King [[Alfonso XIII of Spain]] in [[1906]], and confirmed by the [[International Court of Justice]] in [[1960]]. The exact terminal point was determined to be at 14°59.8'~~08"~~N, 83°08.9'~~09"~~W.<ref name="2007_icj_judgement">{{cite web\|url=http://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/120/120-20071008-JUD-01-00-EN.pdf#page=13\|title=Territorial and Maritime Dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras in the Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua v. Honduras)\|format=PDF\|date=8 October 2007\|publisher=International Court of Justice\|accessdate=2017-10-10\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830012000/http://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/120/120-20071008-JUD-01-00-EN.pdf#page=13\|archive-date=30 August 2017\|url-status=dead}}</ref> The name is [[Spanish (language)\|Spanish]] for "Cape ~~[[Thanks]]~~Thank ~~to [[~~God]]" and is said to have been bestowed by [[Christopher Columbus]] on his last voyage in [[1502]] when the weather calmed suddenly as he ~~found~~rounded ~~shelter~~the ~~there~~cape ~~from~~during a severe storm. This incident also gave the name to [[Honduras]], which means 'depths' in Spanish, since the complete phrase is said to have been 'Gracias a Dios hemos salido de esas Honduras', or 'Thank God we have come out from those depths', and both places were automatically named at that very moment. ~~[[Category:~~==Geography ~~of Nicaragua]]~~== [[Category:Geography of Honduras]]▼ ===Climate=== {{Weather box \|location = Cabo Gracias a Dios \|single line = Yes \|metric first = Yes \|Jan high F = 84 \|Feb high F = 84 \|Mar high F = 87 \|Apr high F = 88 \|May high F = 88 \|Jun high F = 87 \|Jul high F = 88 \|Aug high F = 89 \|Sep high F = 89 \|Oct high F = 87 \|Nov high F =85 \|Dec high F = 85 \|year high F = 87 \|Jan low F = 71 \|Feb low F = 70 \|Mar low F = 71 \|Apr low F = 73 \|May low F = 74 \|Jun low F = 74 \|Jul low F = 74 \|Aug low F = 75 \|Sep low F = 73 \|Oct low F = 72 \|Nov low F = 72 \|Dec low F = 73 \|year low F = 73 \|Jan precipitation inch = 9.9 \|Feb precipitation inch =7.8 \|Mar precipitation inch = 3.1 \|Apr precipitation inch = 5.3 \|May precipitation inch = 16 \|Jun precipitation inch = 25 \|Jul precipitation inch = 12 \|Aug precipitation inch = 8 \|Sep precipitation inch = 17 \|Oct precipitation inch = 20 \|Nov precipitation inch = 21 \|Dec precipitation inch = 10 \|year precipitation inch = 155 \|source 1 = Weatherbase <ref name=Weatherbase> {{cite web \|url =http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=152787&cityname=Cabo-Gracias-a-Dios-Regi%F3n-Aut%F3noma-del-Atl%E1ntico-Sur-Nicaragua\|title =Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Cabo Gracias a Dios, Nicaragua \|publisher=Weatherbase \|year=2013 }} Retrieved on April 19, 2013. </ref> \|date=April 2013 }} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Commonscatinline}} {{coord\|14\|59\|48\|N\|83\|08\|54\|W\|type:landmark_dim:10000\|display=title}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Landforms of Nicaragua]] ▲[[Category:~~Geography~~Landforms of Honduras]] [[Category:Headlands of North America\|Gracias a Dios]] [[Category:Honduras–Nicaragua border crossings]]