Archipelago bordering the north and east of the Caribbean Sea
For other uses, see Antilles (disambiguation).
The West Indies (red), which includes the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
The Antilles[1] is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east.
The Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles includes the Cayman Islands and larger islands of Cuba, Hispaniola (subdivided into the nations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and Navassa Island, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. The Lesser Antilles contains the northerly Leeward Islands and the southeasterly Windward Islands as well as the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Lucayan Archipelago (consisting of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands), though a part of the West Indies, is generally not included among the Antillean islands.[2]
Geographically, the Antillean islands are generally considered a subregion of North America. Culturally speaking, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico – and sometimes the whole of the Antilles – are included in Latin America, although some sources use the phrase "Latin America and the Caribbean" instead (see Latin America, "In Contemporary Usage").[3]
In terms of geology, the Greater Antilles are mostly made up of continental rock accreted on the North American Plate from relative movement of the Caribbean Plate. The Lesser Antilles are mostly young volcanic islands created by the Lesser Antilles subduction zone.
^Some sources, such as Encarta in Spanish, include the Bahamas in the Antilles. [1] Archived 2009-10-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish). Archived 2009-10-31.
^"85.04.04: The Geophysics and Cultural Aspects of the Greater Antilles". teachersinstitute.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
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