Resumen

MIRABAL MONTIEL, Yennybel  y  VALECILLO JAIMES, Norma. The Delimitation of Marine and Submarine Areas between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, Between Guyana and Suriname, on the Rights of Jurisdiction of Venezuela in the Atlantic Ocean. Terra [online]. 2015, vol.31, n.49, pp.13-48. ISSN 1012-7089.

The purpose of this research is to analyze the judgments effects of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which established the maritime boundary between Barbados and Trinidad-Tobago, and Guiana and Surinam, on the jurisdiction rights of Venezuela in the maritime space that projects itself into the Atlantic Ocean. This paper was developed through the mode of documentary research, and it was comprised of an explanatory-descriptive level, which is an analytical study of conceptual type, framed in a literature review and a bibliographic selection of major documentary sources in Venezuela and the world, about Law of the Sea, because it provides the fundamental framework for all aspects of law, jurisdiction and usufruct of the States in respect of maritime areas. This investigation, aims to give an approximate view of reality, presented in the Venezuelan Atlantic area, and how it could be affected by the claims of others neighboring States, because of the outcome of the delimitation of marine and submarine areas adjacent to the Atlantic front, will depend the rights preservation of the Venezuelan State on the Delta Amacuro state territory and the territory of Guayana Esequiba.

Palabras clave : right; sea; delimitation; continental shelf; judgment; arbitration; Atlantic; geopolitics.