Coiba Plate

Coiba Plate
Coiba Plate in dark red, Malpelo Plate in purple CTF in green, PTF in red
Type	Micro
Coordinates	06°41′N 80°04′W / 6.683°N 80.067°W / 6.683; -80.067
Movement1	East
Features	Bordering: Panama Plate (north) North Andes Plate (east) Malpelo Plate (south) Cocos Plate (west) Basins: Chocó Offshore Basin Colombian Deep Pacific Basin
1Relative to the African Plate

The Coiba Plate is a small tectonic plate (microplate) located off the coasts south of Panama and northwestern Colombia. It is named after Coiba, the largest island of Central America, just north of the plate offshore southern Panama. It is bounded on the west by the Cocos Plate, on the south by the Malpelo Plate, on the east by the North Andes Plate, and on the north by the Panama Plate. This microplate was previously assumed to be part of the Nazca Plate, forming the northeastern tongue of the Nazca Plate together with the Malpelo Plate. Bordering the Coiba Plate on the east are the north–south striking Bahía Solano Fault and east of that, the Serranía de Baudó, an isolated mountain chain in northwestern Chocó, Colombia.