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The Gulf of Mexico is an oceanic basin, and by definition, must contain salt water. Something like that thought the Gulf of Mexico is basically a reef or in other words a really big lake that covers 4 percent of the world which is 2 aquers

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The Gulf of Mexico is saltwater because all the oceans are saltwater and the Gulf of Mexico uses the same water as the oceans. So therefore the Gulf of Mexico is Salt Water.

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No. It is seawater.

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