Caribbean space

See also: the Caribbean

The Caribbean Space or Caraïbe is an area of the sphere corresponding to the catchment area of the Caribbean Sea. It was sometimes qualified the Mediterranean of the Nouveau World, it was marked culturally by different the Colonisation S Western and the slave companies which took place there. Its inhabitants is Caribéens and not the the Caribbean which are a Amerindian Ethnie S which lived there before being exterminated by the colonists.

It includes/understands the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, the peninsula of the Yucatan, the Caraïbe frontage of the Central America, as well as the coastal plains of Colombia, of the Venezuela and the Plateau of Guyanes. One generally includes there the the Bahamas, the Keys, the Bermuda and more rarely the Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Caribbean one is regarded most of the time as an under-area of the North America.

Various denominations

One speaks indifferently about Caribbean or about the Caribbean to qualify the same entity (that one should not confuse with the the Antilles which are a Archipel and gathers the whole of the islands of Caribbean other than the continental territories and of the the Bahamas).

Lastly, there exists name the Western Indies which fell in French disuse but remains very used in English: West Indies . This historical name is not related to any geographical reality but only on one common historical experiment.

The Caribbean one today

The Caribbean one is fragmented today in a great number of State S and dependant territories, trying to organize itself in an international regional entity. The last to be created is the Association of the States of Caribbean the (English AEC or ACS).

The Caribbean one is not federated by a common language, the principal languages which are spoken there are: Spanish, English, different languages creole, French and Dutch, and sometimes also Portuguese among populations of origin Brazilian and other languages of populations taken refuge (as the Vietnamese which sometimes was essential de facto in certain isolated communities), or other European languages (in a nonofficial way, but de facto in certain local communities, such as the Swedish, the German and the Italian where they coexist with the official language).

The companies caribéennes are very cosmopolitan because the area saw many successive waves of immigration.

The Caribbean one is famous in the imaginary collective for its beaches and its paradisiac nature, but also for the exubérance of its populations and their direction of the festival.

Regional organizations

  • the Association of the States of Caribbean the
  • CARICOM
  • OECO or English OECS

See too

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