The Antilles

The the Antilles are a group of island S, located in the Caribbean Sea, and bordered in the South by the South America, in South-west by the Central America and in the North-West by the the United States. The archipelago forms an arc of 3500 km length circle, extending since Cuba in the south of Florida to the small island Dutchwoman of Aruba, off Venezuela. They represent 230.000 km ² emerged ground, for 35 million inhabitants.

The space ''' Caraïbe ''' includes/understands in addition to the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, the the Bahamas, the south of the Florida, the peninsula of the Yucatan, Belize, the coastal strip of the Central America, as well as the coastal plains of the Venezuela and of Colombia.

Origin of the name

The name would be derived from Antillia a phantom island located at the west of Spain. One of the first mentions of this island is reproduced on the chart of Pizzigano in 1424.

Chart of the Caribbean Sea

The islands of the Caribbean more in North do not form part of the Antilles themselves. The Antilles are traditionally distinguished in two parts:

• the Greater Antilles

They include the four islands of Cuba, the Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and Puerto Rico. They alone represent the nine tenth of the surface and the total population of the Antilles.

• the Lesser Antilles

They consist of a chain of small islands of volcanic origin or limestone which extend in arc of circle from Virgin Islands in the East from Puerto Rico until the Grenade in the south. Then this alignment curves towards the west.

By surface

By country

Insular territories of the Caribbean

Archipelagoes of the North of the Caribbean, out of the Antilles

• the Bahamas
• Islands Abacos
• Island Andros
• Cat
• Eleuthera
• Islands Exumas
• Large Bahama
• New Providence

Greater Antilles in the center of the Caribbean

• Cuba
• Cuba
• Guantanamo Bay (military base on the island of Cuba, rented by the United States)
• Isla of Juventud
• Hispaniola
• Puerto Rico (not-built-in territory of the United States)
• Culebra
• Mona
• Puerto Rico
• Vieques

Lesser Antilles in the South of the Caribbean

• Anguilla (dependancy of the United Kingdom)
• Anguilla
• Small islands inhabitées : Dog, Prickly Pear, Scrub, Anguilita, Sandy.
• Antigua-and-Barbuda
• Antigua
• Barbuda
• Redonda
• French West Indies (dependancies of France)
• Guadeloupe (overseas department, n°971)
• Archipelago of the Guadeloupe
• Island of the Guadeloupe
• Low-Ground
• Large-Ground
• Désirade
• Marie-Gallant
• Islands of the Small Earth (uninhabited)
• Islands of Holy the
• Ground-with-High
• Ground-of-Low
• Islands of North (distant dependences)
• Small St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
• îles : Island Fourchue, Island Kid, Island Frigate, Island Fake Towards, the Tortoise.
• Saint Martin's day (left Northern the island Saint Martin's day, divided with)
• Small islands inhabitées : Din, Pinel, Cayes Green, Crawl Rock'n'roll.
• Martinique (overseas department, n°972)
• Martinique
• Rock of Diamond (uninhabited)
• (dependancy of the Netherlands)
• Leeward Islands or Benedenwindse Einseln (in the South, close to Aruba)
• Bonaire
• Curaçao
• Klein Bonaire or Small Bonaire
• Klein Curaçao or Small Curaçao
• Islands with the Wind or Bovenwindse Einseln (distant dependences in North)
• Sheba
• Saint-Eustace or Sint Eustatius
• Sint Maarten (left Southern the island Saint Martin's day, divided with the Guadeloupe)
• Small islands inhabitées : Hen & Chicken, Guana Key, Molly Beday.
• Aruba (dependancy of the Netherlands)
• Aruba
• Barbados
• Barbados or Barbados
• Culpepper
• (dependancy of the United Kingdom)
• Cayman Brac or Caiman Brac
• Large Cayman or Large Caiman
• Little Cayman or Small Caiman
• Dominique
• Small island inhabitée : Isla de Aves or island with the Birds (contentious with Venezuela)
• Grenade
• Grenadian Grenade
• (small portion in the South of the archipelago, also divided with Saint-Vincent-and them Grenadian)
• Carriacou
• Small Martinique
• Small islands inhabitées : Saltworks, Frigate, Broad, Round, the Aunts, Sisters, Ruail, Green, Hog, Glover.
• Montserrat (dependancy of the United Kingdom)
• Navassa (dependancy of the United States)
• Niévès or Nevis
• Saint-Christophe or Saint-Kitts
• Grenadian St Lucia
• Saint-Vincent-and them
• Grenadian Saint-Vincent
• (the major part of the archipelago, except some islands attached to Grenade)
• Bequia
• Canouan
• Mosquito
• Union
• Small islands inhabitées : Pigeon, Bettowia, Baliceaux, Small Mosquito, Island to Four, Mayreau, Savan, Small Canouan, Small Niévès, Allawash, Pillories, Tobago Cays, Palm, Small Saint-Vincent, Young.
• Tobago
• Little Tobago
• Large Trinity or Trinidad
• Chacachacare
• Gaspar
• Huevos
• Monos
• (dependancy of the United Kingdom)
• Large Turk
• Middle Caicos or Caïque power station
• North Caicos or Caïque of North
• Parrot Cay
• Prick Cay
• Providenciales
• Salt Cay
• South Caicos or Caïque of the South
• (not-built-in territory of the United States)
• Holy-Cross
• Buck Island
• Saint-John
• Saint-Thomas
• Hassel Island
• Thatch Cay
• Toilets Island
• (dependancy of the United Kingdom)
• Anegada
• Beef Island
• Bellamy Cay
• Cooper Island
• Great Camanoe
• Guana Island
• Jost Van Dyke
• Little Thatch
• Marina Cay
• Mosquito Island
• Nanny Cay
• Necker Island
• Norman Island
• Peter Island
• Prickly Pear Island
• Sheba Rock'n'roll
• Salt Cay
• Tortola
• Virgin Gorda

States of North America with dependences in the Antilles

• the United States
• Florida Keys (Florida)
• Key West
• Island of Navasse
• Mexico
• Isla Cancún
• Isla Contoy
• Isla Cozumel
• Isla Mujeres

States of Central America with dependences in the Antilles

• Belize
• Ambergris Caye
• Caye Caulker
• Glover' S Reef
• Hicks Cays
• Lighthouse Reef
• South Toilets Caye
• Turneffe Islands
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Islas of Bahía
• Guanaja
• Roatán
• Útila
• Cayos Cochinos
• Swan Islands
• Swan Islands
• Nicaragua
• Corn Islands
• Cayos Miskitos
• Panama
• San Blas Islands
• Bocas del Toro

States of South America with dependences in the Antilles

• Colombia
• San Andres there Providencia
• Suriname
• Venezuela
• Island Margarita
• Los Monjes Archipelago
• Tired Aves Archipelago
• Isla de Aves (contentious with the Dominique)
• Los Hermanos Island
• Los Frailes Island
• Los Castlings Archipelago
• Sola Island
• Isla Tortuga
• Orchila Island
• Los Testigos Island
• Blanquilla Island
• Isla de Patos

People précolombiens

A profusion of distinct cultures developed in the Antilles before the arrival of Christophe Colomb in 1492. They are distinguished from continental civilizations by the culture of the Manioc, of the specific styles for work of the Bois, the Or and the Tumbaga (alloy of gold and Cuivre). The absence of great stone architectures slices with the abundance of Pyramide S with degrees which one can find in Central America and in the the Andes.

• Caribbean Arawak

• S or Kalinas
• Ciboney
• Taïnos

Languages

The diversity of the spoken languages in the Caribbean is very large.

• the English is the language official of the majority of the West-Indian islands including/understanding St Lucia, Dominique, Antigua-and-Barbuda, Anguilla, the Jamaica, the the Bahamas, Trinité and Tobago, Grenade, Saint-Vincent-and them Grenadian, Saint-Christophe-and-Niévès, the Barbados, the Cayman Islands, the Turkish Îles and Caïques, the British Virgin Islands, the United States Virgin Islands etc the English are also majority with Saint Martin's day.
• the Spanish in Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba
• the French in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and in Haiti.
• the creole West-Indian or Creyol (derivative of French, sometimes also called Patois or locally Patwa ) in Haiti (Creole Haitian), Martinique (Creole inhabitant of Martinique), Guadeloupe (Creole inhabitant of Guadeloupe), Dominique, St Lucia and to a lesser extent with Grenade and Saint-Vincent.
• the Dutch with Aruba and in the Dutch West Indies.
• There are also Creoles or local patois in Jamaica (Patois rasta, derived from English), the Papiamento of the Dutch West Indies amongst other things.

Regional integration

• Association of the States of Caribbean the (AEC): create the July 24th 1994, it is to concert the action of the countries of the basins of Caribbean, mainly in the fields commercial, environment, tourism and natural disasters.
• CARICOM Caribbean Community and Common Market, Common Market of the Antilles. Intended originally for the only anglophone countries, it became multilingual in practice since the integration of the Suriname and Haiti.
• Organization of the States of Caribbean Eastern the
• Bank of Development of Caribbean the
• Free exchange zone of Americas creation project of a zone of Free trade between the states of North America, South America and the Antilles.
• to note that because of their statute, the islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin's day and Saint Barthelemy are excluded de facto from regional integration.

See too

The Antilles

• Caribbean Sea
• Vegetation of Caribbean space
• Piracy in the Caribbean
• French West Indies
• British Dutch West Indies
• the Antilles
• the Danish Antilles

External bonds

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