Latin America and Caribbean Compared by Geography > Maritime claims > Territorial sea

DEFINITION: territorial sea - the sovereignty of a coastal State extends beyond its land territory and internal waters to an adjacent belt of sea, described as the territorial sea in the LOS Convention (Part II); this sovereignty extends to the air space over the territorial sea as well as its underlying seabed and subsoil; every State has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles. A full and definitive definition can be found in the Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
=1	Peru	200 nautical mile	2013
=1	Ecuador	200 nautical mile	2013
=3	Chile	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Dominica	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Dominican Republic	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Barbados	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Panama	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Costa Rica	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	El Salvador	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Belize	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Colombia	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Suriname	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Venezuela	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Trinidad and Tobago	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Mexico	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Aruba	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Argentina	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Guatemala	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	The Bahamas	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Jamaica	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Saint Lucia	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Bermuda	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Brazil	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Cayman Islands	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Saint Kitts and Nevis	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Cuba	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Honduras	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Guyana	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Nicaragua	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Antigua and Barbuda	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Uruguay	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Grenada	12 nautical mile	2013
=3	Haiti	12 nautical mile	2013

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