Roca Partida

Roca Partida is an uninhabited rocky island in the eastern Pacific Ocean and also the smallest of belonging to Mexico Revillagigedo Islands. It is about 800 km from the Mexican coast and about 107 km west of Socorro Island, the largest of this island group situated.

The distinctive split into two halves rock island is 91 m long, 45 m wide and has an area of ​​0.3 ha (0.003 km ²) on. It represents the tip of an extinct volcano and rises in the north- western peak of up to 34 m from the Pacific, while the southeast summit rises 25 m high. The only 10 m narrow isthmus between the two peaks reaches a saddle height of about six meters.

In analogy to the island Clarion is also about the discovery of Roca Partida contradictory information: To the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos is mentioned, is said to have sighted the rocks in 1569 for the first time; José Camacho, however, is said to have discovered the rock in 1779.

Roca Partida is a part of the Biosphere Reserve, created in 1994 Reserve of the Biosphere Archipelago de Revillagigedo and breeding area for many seabirds.