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Isthmus of Tehuantepec

Map showing the relief of the isthmus

1736 map. Caption at lower left: "These rivers almost meet. both of them are Navigable, and all the Cannon and Stores for Acapulco are Carryed from the North to the South Sea by them."

Map of the Straits of Florida and Gulf of Mexico. To accompany a report from the U.S. Treasury Department to the U.S. Senate by Israel D. Andrews, per the resolution of the Senate of March 8, 1851.

The Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Spanish pronunciation: [tewanteˈpek]) is an isthmus in Mexico. It represents the shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. Before the opening of the Panama Canal, it was a major overland transport route known simply as the Tehuantepec Route. The name is taken from the town of Santo Domingo Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca; this was derived from the Nahuatl term Tēcuāntepēc ("jaguar mountain").

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برزخ تيهوانتيبيك Arabic Teuantepek bərzəği AZ Теуантепек (провлак) Bulgarian Strizh-douar Tehuantepec BR Istme de Tehuantepec Catalan Istmo de Tehuantepec CEB Tehuantepecká šíje Czech Isthmus von Tehuantepec German Istmo de Tehuantepeko EO Istmo de Tehuantepec Spanish

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