is ixtapa on the pacific side?
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With the Pacific Ocean on one side, and the spectacular Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range on the other, the Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo area offers some of the most luxurious beaches, turquoise waters and scenic vistas in Mexico.
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The Mariana Plate is a micro tectonic plate located west of the Mariana Trench which forms the basement of the Mariana Islands which form part of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc. It is separated from the Philippine Sea Plate to the west by a divergent boundary with numerous transform fault offsets.
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Oceania also includes three island regions: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia (including the U.S. state of Hawaii).
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['American Samoa.', 'Australia.', 'Christmas Island.', 'Cook Islands.', 'Fiji.', 'French Polynesia.', 'Guam.', 'Kiribati.']
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Xcaret (Mayan pronunciation: [ʃkaˈɾet]) is a Maya civilization archaeological site located on the Caribbean coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico. The site was occupied by the pre-Columbian Maya and functioned as a port for navigation and an important Maya trading center.
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Part II (The Pacific Ocean) opens with the sinking of the Japanese freighter ship Tsimtsum. Pi, his family, and many of their zoo animals board the Tsimtsum in India for the trans-Pacific passage to their new home in Canada. But due to mechanical failure and an undisciplined crew, the ship sinks during a storm.
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The Juan de Fuca Plate is bounded on the south by the Blanco Fracture Zone (running northwest off the coast of Oregon), on the north by the Nootka Fault (running southwest off Nootka Island, near Vancouver Island, British Columbia) and along the west by the Pacific Plate (which covers most of the Pacific Ocean and is ...
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East Asia is at the western edge of the Pacific Rim, while the dot that represents Los Angeles sits proudly at the eastern edge, north of Latin America, and still in the southwest corner of the United States.
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The northwest moving Pacific Plate has moved across the 'hot spot' that created the Hawaiian Islands for millions of years. This movement has left the northwest trending island chain (of over 20 islands and atolls) we call Hawaii.
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Puako is located on the west side of the island of Hawaii at 19°58′3″N 155°50′48″W (19.967500, -155.846667). It is bordered to the west by the Pacific Ocean and to the east by Waikoloa Village.
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['Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve.', 'Tortuguero National Park.', 'Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula.', 'Piedras Blancas National Park.', 'Arenal Volcano National Park.', 'Manuel Antonio National Park.', 'Ballena Marine National Park, South Pacific Coast.', 'Carara National Park, Central Pacific Coast.']
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Samoa, country in the central South Pacific Ocean, among the westernmost of the island countries of Polynesia.
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['Fiji.', 'Kiribati: Gilbert Islands.', 'Marshall Islands.', 'Nauru.', 'New Zealand.', 'Russia: Chukotka, Kamchatka.', 'South Pole.', 'Tuvalu.']
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The Gulf of California and the Salton Trough form the oblique-divergent boundary between the Pacific and North America plates from 22° to 34°N latitude (Fig.
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Guam. ... Guam, island and unincorporated territory of the United States in the North Pacific Ocean, the largest, most populous, and southernmost of the Mariana Islands. It lies about 5,800 miles (9,300 km) west of San Francisco and 1,600 miles (2,600 km) east of Manila.
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Where Is Tahiti? Tahiti and The Islands of Tahiti are located in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean. They are just as much south of the equator as Hawaii is north of that line, and they are roughly the same distance from California as they are from Australia.
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What direction is the Pacific Plate moving? the Pacific Plate is moving north west relative to the plate that holds North America, and relative to hot spots coming up through the mantle from below the plates (they generate islands like Hawaii).