Geography
The island measures 600 m (656 yd) north-south and 400 m (437 yd) east-west, including the flat northeastern peninsula which is connected to the main part only by a narrow sandy isthmus. Six hundred meters west of the southermost point is a shoal, Bajo Evelyn, which has a shallow depth of 8 fathoms. While the island is flat in the north, it reaches a height of 34.9 m (104.5 ft) 2.9 km (1.8 mi) southwest of the island's port, on a small rocky hill called El Morrillo, which rises abruptly from the water and the lowland around it. The area of the island is 0.14 km² (139,179 m²: Block 2000, Census Block Group 2, Census tract 1801, Humacao Municipio, Puerto Rico), of which the northeastern peninsula accounts for about 0.02 km². The island is part of Punta Santiago barrio of Humacao.
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