Where is the caribbean sea located on a map
What is the Caribbean
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hey did you ever have a buddy brag to
you that he just had a great Caribbean
vacation down in Nassau or Bermuda well
no you didn't because the Bahamas and
Bermuda are not in the Caribbean in fact
a lot of people don't even know where
the Caribbean actually is the Caribbean
islands in the Caribbean Sea reside on
top of what's called the Caribbean plate
this runs from Belize across so in Cuba
north of Haiti Hispaniola and Dominican
Republic then crosses over the Puerto
Rico Trench just north of Puerto Rico
and then down to the east side of the
Leeward Islands down towards taboão so
countries such as Venezuela Colombia
Belize Cuba Haiti in the Dominican
Republic and of course islands such as
Puerto Rico Trinidad Tobago all are part
of the Caribbean
of course the ABC islands Aruba Bonaire
curaçao Jamaica and the Caymans all
reside inside the Caribbean but get just
a few miles north of Puerto Rico and
during the Atlantic
so the Bahamas Florida and Bermuda are
actually Atlantic islands this causes
some confusion for people especially
because politically and socially islands
such as the Bahamas are virtually
identical decreeing islands in fact the
Bahamas are even part of certain
Caribbean trade pacts for that matter so
is Bermuda but as far as the Caribbean
or Caribbean Sea goes they're not
actually Caribbean islands so now you
have a better idea of what actually
makes the caribbean to caribbean if it
doesn't sit on the Caribbean plate it's
not part of the Caribbean Sea if it's
not part of the Caribbean Sea it's not
actually a Caribbean island
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