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The Caribbean: Natural and Geographic Landscape

4 months ago By The Editor

The Caribbean, or West Indies, is a region of the Americas that consists of several groups of islands within or bordering the Caribbean Sea, plus The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands, which are in the Atlantic Ocean. The region includes more than 700 islands, islets, reefs, and cays.

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The Path of Human Settlement in the Caribbean

2 years ago By Syndication

The Caribbean is the only region of the Americas where people settled an archipelago with some islands not visible from surrounding areas. Despite more than a century of research, there are still many questions about when they migrated and what routes they took.

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Turks and Caicos Islands

2 years ago By The Editor

The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, situated on an underwater plateau marine bank. The Turks and Caicos include eight large cays and numerous smaller cays, islets, reefs, banks and rocks.

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Urban Historic Center of Cienfuegos, World Heritage Site (Cuba)

4 years ago By The Editor

Situated on the Caribbean coast of southern-central Cuba, the colonial town of Cienfuegos was founded in 1819 in the Spanish territory but was initially settled by immigrants of French origin. It became a trading place for sugar cane, tobacco and coffee.

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Viñales Valley, World Heritage Site (Cuba)

4 years ago By The Editor

Viñales Valley, in far western Cuba, exhibits an outstanding karst landscape, encircled by mountains and dotted with spectacular dome-like limestone outcrops that rise nearly 1,000 ft. The valley is home to an original culture who once worked the tobacco plantations.

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Virgin Islands National Park and Coral Reef National Monument (USVI)

2 years ago By The Editor

Virgin Islands National Park, is renowned for its breathtaking beauty that includes steep hillsides, rocky shores, coral sand beaches, numerous bays, coral reefs, coral ledges, turtle grass beds, mangrove swamps and natural salt ponds on Saint John and Hassel Island.

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Washington Slagbaai National Park (Bonaire)

The Editor Thu, 02/28/2019 - 19:17

Washington Slagbaai National Park is an ecological reserve on the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands. Initially inhabited by native South Americans and comprised of two of the most extensive plantations on the island during the colonial period, the park is rich in historical and cultural heritage.

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West Indies: Antilles and Lucayan Archipelago

4 years ago By The Editor

The West Indies is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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