Caribbean South America
Subregion of South America
Caribbean South America[1] is a subregion of South America that borders the Caribbean Sea, consisting of the Caribbean region of Colombia[2] and the Venezuelan Caribbean.[3]
Significant cities and metropolitan areas with populations over 250,000 on South America's Caribbean coast include, from west to east: Cartagena (914,552), Barranquila (2,370,753 metropolitan area), Santa Marta (499,192 district), Maracaibo (5,278,448 metropolitan area), Caracas (8,956,813 metropolitan area), Barcelona (815,141), Puerto La Cruz (454,312), and Cumaná (405,626).
By extension, The Guianas, while not bordering the Caribbean Sea directly, are commonly reckoned with this region, as well, on account of their close ties with Caribbean countries, e.g. through membership in the Caribbean Community.
See also
- ABC islands
- Spanish Main
- Trinidad and Tobago
References
- ^ Zevallos, Luis Ortiz de (1976). Tierra Y Urbe (in Spanish). Unesco, Oficina Regional de Cultura para América Latina y el Caribe, Centro de Documentación.
- ^ "Caribe Colombiano". PROCOLOMBIA (in Spanish).
- ^ "Viajar al Caribe venezolano – Cosas del Caribe". www.cosasdelcaribe.es (in Spanish). 2010-05-20. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
- v
- t
- e
Caribbean
Indies
| Antilles |
| ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucayan Archipelago |
Sea
continental
zone
| Central America | |
|---|---|
| South America |
groupings
may include:
| Yucatán Peninsula | |
|---|---|
| The Guianas |
N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.
^These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which *the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.
†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.
ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.
#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally. | This Colombian location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
 | This article about a location in Venezuela is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
