Monito Island

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Monito Island (English: Little Mona, Template:Langx) is an uninhabited island about Template:Cvt northwest of the much larger Mona Island. Monito is the masculine diminutive form of Mona in Spanish, which also translates to little monkey in Spanish. It is one of three islands in the Mona Passage, and part of the Isla de Mona e Islote Monito barrio, a subdivision of the municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

It is Template:Cvt from the Puerto Rican mainland, and Template:Cvt from the island of Hispaniola (the coast of the Dominican Republic).

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Migrants from Cuba rescued near Monito Island by the US Coast Guard

The island is uninhabited. The high altitude of the island's shoreline makes it inaccessible by sea. Monito has an area of Template:Cvt or Template:Cvt, its highest point is Script error: No such module "convert"., and is barren. The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued migrants off Monito Island. The Monito gecko is found only on Monito Island.[1]

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