Locating the Caribbean Flashcards
The Caribbean is divided into 4 sub regions, what are they?
Lesser Antilles
Greater Antilles
The Mainland Territories
“Other Territories”
What countries are in the greater Antilles
Jamaica, Cuba, (Hispaniola) Haiti & The Dominican Republic, and Puerto RIco
What countries are in the lesser Antilles?
St.Lucia, St.Vincent, Dominica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Montserrat, Anguilla, British Virgin islands, Antigua and Barbuda, St.Martin, Guadeloupe
What are the four mainland territories?
Belize, Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana
What are some other territories of the caribbean?
Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos islands.
What is the Geographic Definition of the Caribbean?
Islands ‘washed’/rimmed by the Caribbean sea
What are the limitations of the Geographic definition?
Guyana and the Bahamas do not have coastlines of the Caribbean yet both are accepted as part of the caribbean.
Second, Panama, Columbia, Belize, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras are situated on the mainland of Central America, but are still included as part of the geographical definition of the Caribbean because they are washed by the Caribbean Sea.
Third, the mainland territories of Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana are located on the mainland of South America and border the Atlantic Ocean, which means
that geographically they are considered South American and so are excluded from the geographical defi nition of the Caribbean.
What is the Geological Definition?
The geological Caribbean refers to the area defined by the Caribbean Plate that shares similar seismic, tectonic and volcanic features. It is not widely used.
What are the Limitations of the Geological Definition?
The western edge of the Caribbean Plate lies in the Pacific and includes Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama.
This leaves the Bahamas, Belize and Cuba out of the region.
What is the Historical Definition?
This refers to countries that have experienced European colonisation (English, Dutch, Spanish and French), Slavery, indentureship and the plantation system.
What is the Political Definition?
Political definitions of the Caribbean refer to the socio-economic and other groupings found in the region.
What are the 3 different types of states/political system?
Independent States: Countries that were under colonial rule, but now run independently. Example: are The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica
Associated States: British colonies in the Eastern
Caribbean (Antigua, Grenada, Dominica, St Vincent, St Lucia and St Christopher- Nevis-Anguilla)
Colonial Dependencies: countries that are not independent and enjoy the rights and privileges of the country that governs them.They are: the territories of Great Britain – Montserrat, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Cayman Islands,Turks and Caicos;
What does Diaspora mean?
Scattering; Communities that have developed elsewhere; they scatter from their homeland to places across the globe, spreading their culture as they go
What are 2 archipelagos?
Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles
What was the first country to gain independence in the caribbean?
Haiti, Jan 1 1804.
