Caribbean
About Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north and also the west through Central America, and South America to the south, it comprises numerous islands, cays, islets, reefs, and banks.
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A lot of the sand in the Caribbean is blown over from the Sahara.
from 577: No Such Thing As A Venetian Barge · read transcript
More facts about Caribbean
A major coral disease in 1999 killed off loads of Caribbean coral, a fungus called Aspergillus that had lived in the Sahara Desert, been picked up and blown all the way over to the Caribbean.
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Coordinates: 14.5256, -75.8183