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[[Image:WellgeMap.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Pensacola and Pensacola Bay, 1885 lithograph]]
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'''Pensacola Bay''' is located in the northwestern part of [[Florida]] known as the [[Florida Panhandle]].
'''Pensacola Bay''' is an inlet of the [[Gulf of Mexico]] and is about 13 miles (21 km) long and 2.5 miles (4 km) wide.
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[[Image:Pensacola1885.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Pensacola and Pensacola Bay, 1885 lithograph]]
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The bay, an inlet of the [[Gulf of Mexico]], is located in [[Escambia County, Florida|Escambia]] and [[Santa Rosa County, Florida|Santa Rosa]] Counties, adjacent to the city of [[Pensacola, Florida|Pensacola]], and is about 13 miles (21 km) long and 2.5 miles (4 km) wide.  
  
==History & names==
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The Pensacola Bay Bridge crosses the bay, connecting [[Gulf Breeze]] to Pensacola. The [[Gulf Islands National Seashore]] is part of the bay, and the [[Gulf Intracoastal Waterway]] runs through part of the bay. Pensacola Bay leads into [[Escambia Bay]] to the north, and to the East Bay.  
Pensacola Bay has gone by many names. During the early expeditions of [[Ponce de Léon]], [[Pánfilo de Narváez]] and [[Hernando de Soto]], it was called '''Polonza''' and '''Ochuse'''. The bay was dubbed '''Bahía Santa María de Filipina''' by [[Tristán de Luna y Arellano]] in [[1559]]. It was renamed '''Bahía Santa María de Galve''' (after Gaspar de Sandoval Silva y Mendoza, the [[Conde de Galve]] and then-viceroy of Mexico) by the [[1693]] expedition of General [[Andrés de Pez]].
 
  
==Bridges==
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==See also==
The [[Pensacola Bay Bridge]] crosses the bay, connecting [[Gulf Breeze]] to Pensacola. The [[Gulf Islands National Seashore]] is part of the bay, and the [[Gulf Intracoastal Waterway]] runs through part of the bay. Pensacola Bay leads into [[Escambia Bay]] to the north, and to the [[East Bay]] to the east.
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*[[Pensacola, Florida]]
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*[[History of Pensacola, Florida]]
  
 
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[[Category:Pensacola waterfront]] [[Category:Bays of Florida]]

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