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Geographically, the strait can be comprised of a space in which two portions of land are kept close together, limiting the flow of Water or the watercourse that intermediates between them. The strait is very common between geographic forms such as peninsulas or capes since these two are forms in which there are more extensive and marked vertices than in the rest of the territory. The planet Earth has several straits in which navigation becomes more limited due to the scarce free space through which to travel.

The strait can also be described as a channel, a narrow stream of water between two relatively close patches of land. It gets that name because it precisely represents a narrower or narrower space of the water resource present, whether it is a sea, a ocean or a lagoon.

Due to the proximity of lands that occur in a strait, in general these geographical forms are of great importance at an economic level since they allow that navigation corridors are generated from one point to the other, at the same time that they make two different states can trade much more easily. Normally, the strait divides the terrain into what would be two states u

organizations policies (as happens for example in the Strait of Gibraltar, which faces Spain with Africa), and this is easily a cause of many political, military and even ethnic-social conflicts since facilitates the migration from one point to another.

Depending on the behavior of the sea or the ocean, the strait may shrink if the water level rises continuously or it may narrow even more if there are characteristics of drought and little rainfall. In addition, the action of man can also profoundly alter the environment geographical area, as occurs in the strait that separates America Central of South America, where the Panama Canal is located.

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