Inocentes Channel (Spanish ''Canal Inocentes'') is a strait in Chile that reaches from the

Guía Narrows The Guía Narrows (Spanish ''Angostura Guías'') are located between Chile's Hanover and Chatham Islands. Guia Narrows connects Sarmiento and Inocentes Channels. The narrows are 6 miles long and are 1 to 1.5 miles wide, except at the north end, b ...

(''Angostura Guías'') 18 miles to the northern extreme of Inocentes Island, where it joins the

Concepción Channel Concepción Channel is an inside passage of the Chilean Patagonia. It extends from the point where Wide Channel and Trinidad Channel meet to the open sea. It is located at Earth Info, ''earth-info.nga.mil'' webpage: . and separates Madre de Dios I ...

. The south side of the strait is formed by a succession of high cones sloping to the northwest and ending in the Clements Group. On the north side are three precipitous

headlands A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, Joh ...

with deep inlets between them. The land then trends to the northward, and the foreground consists of islands rising to about 400 feet in height.

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* United States Hydrographic Office
South America Pilot (1916)
page 411 Straits of Chile Bodies of water of Magallanes Region {{MagellanAntarctic-geo-stub

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