Chancandepeco Inlet

… from the Atlantic Ocean into Pamlico Sound through Hatteras Island N of Cape Hatteras, SE Dare County. Opened prior to 1585 and closed prior to 1657. Appears as Chacandepeco on the Velasco map, 1611. The name is possibly a Spanish spelling for an Algonquian Indian word meaning "it dips and disappears as shallows."