Tongoy Bay (Spanish: Bahía de Tongoy) is a bay in Chile's Coquimbo Region. The bay is U-shaped, open to the north. Its western boundary is made up by the hilly and north-protruding Point Lengua de Vaca. More in detail the west boundary of the bay is made up of a seismic fault known as . On the shores of the bay lie the towns of Tongoy and and their respective beaches. Tongoy Bay is site of recurrent upwelling of cold, acidic and oxygen-poor seawater. Oysters are cultivated in Tongoy Bay. Guanaqueros Bay lies a few kilometers north of Tongoy Bay being separated by the coastal mountain of .
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