Mona Passage is a strait between the west end of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, linking the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The tide is small, with a mean range of 1.10 ft (0.34 m) at the San Juan, PR reference station; there is no tide station within the passage.
- Type
- Strait
- Location
- Puerto Rico
- Setting
- Between the west end of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, linking the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea
- Tidal range
- The tide is small, with a mean range of 1.10 ft (0.34 m) at the San Juan, PR reference station; there is no tide station within the passage.
- Notable
- The Mona Canyon within the passage exceeds 4 km (13,000 ft) in depth, one of the deepest submarine canyons in the Caribbean (US Coast Pilot 5).
