The Gulf of Mexico covers a surface area of 579,153 sq miles (1.5 million sq km), and is measured 994 miles (1,600 km) west to east, and 559 miles (900 km) north to south.
After travelling from the aorta, blood travels through peripheral arteries into smaller arteries called arterioles, and eventually to capillaries. Arterioles help in regulating blood pressure by the variable contraction of the smooth muscle of their walls, and deliver blood to the capillaries.
The function of arteries is to take blood from the heart to parts of the body. There are two sets of arteries (relating to each side of the heart):- those that take blood f â¦ rom the heart to the lungs to be re-oxygenated; known as the pulmonary arteries.These are the only arteries that transport de-oxygenated blood.he function of the coronary artery is to carry oxygen and nutrients to the myocardium (heart muscle), it does not actually take the carbon dioxide away, (that is the job of t â¦ he great and small cardiac veins). 46 people found this useful.