Definitions
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- noun a part of the Gulf of Mexico to the west of Yucatan
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Examples
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Now it's back into the Bay of Campeche, which is this area here.
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The Cantarell oil field, the largest in Mexico and the third-biggest in the world, is in the Bay of Campeche, which is located at the southernmost bend of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Hermine rapidly formed in the Bay of Campeche south southeast of Texas late Sunday night and quickly developed into a strong storm yesterday before making landfall in northern Mexico.
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Closer to home, Karl has become a hurricane today as it moves west across the Bay of Campeche.
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Well, it's going to be moving over the peninsula and we're expecting it to move back into the Bay of Campeche.
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Now, if there's a chance, if it does happen to move back out into the Bay of Campeche, or into the Gulf of Mexico, there is the potential that this thing getting a lot stronger, strengthening once again, maybe could veer a little bit more to the north.
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Now, it did miss the oil fields here of the Yucatan Peninsula here in the Bay of Campeche.
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REYNOLDS WOLF, CNN METEOROLOGIST: And Hurricane Dean continues to roar in the Bay of Campeche, category-two storm with maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour.
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And Dean continues to rumble its way through -- past the Yucatan Peninsula into the Bay of Campeche.
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And then back out into the Bay of Campeche, then the Gulf of Mexico as a category three on Wednesday.
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