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Corocoro Island

712 km² of land in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Corocoro Island seen from space, cut out from the sea (Sentinel-2)
N 10 km

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

712km²

Area

196km

Coastline

28m

Highest point

29°C

Warmest sea

September

When to go to Corocoro Island

Best for the beach from January to May.

The sea is warmest in September (29 °C) and coolest in February (27 °C). You can swim comfortably all year (21 °C or more).

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days Best months

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Island on the Venezuela–Guyana border

Corocoro Island is an island in Guyana. It covers 712 km², with 196 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 28 m.

Read more on Wikipedia

Getting there

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on Corocoro Island.

  • 1lighthousesFaro de Barima

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 14 m above the sea. 100 % of it is below 200 m.

  • 100 %0–50 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Corocoro Island712 km²
Madeira Island742 km²
Tenerife2,038 km²

50 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Month by month

The weather on the island.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Afternoon high (°C)282829292928282829292828
Night low (°C)242424252525252626262625
Sea (°C)272727282828282929292828
Rain (mm)122755785208262245191120137199209
Wet days191512142428282620202424
Sun h/day7.07.37.67.46.46.06.98.08.07.16.25.9
Wind (km/h)131313131211101010101112

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2020+0.5+0.4+0.5+0.7+0.3+0.7+0.6+0.6+0.7+0.3+0.3+0.5
2021+0.4+0.1+0.3+0.3+0.1+0.5+0.2+0.6+0.7+0.2+0.2+0.2
2022+0.3+0.6+0.2+0.2+0.3+0.3+0.2+0.5+0.4±0.0±0.0−0.1
2023−0.1+0.1±0.0+0.3+0.7+1.1+1.0+0.9+0.9+1.1+1.0+1.1
2024+1.3+1.0+1.5+1.6+1.4+1.5+1.1+1.0+1.3+1.2+0.9+0.9
2025+1.2+0.7+0.6+0.7+0.6+0.3+0.6+0.4+0.5+0.4+0.1+0.2

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

About these numbers

Names, area, populationWikidata (Q384779) · CC0
Outline© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Sea temperatureNOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
ClimateNASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D modelCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
TownsGeoNames · CC BY 4.0
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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