The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, together with Navassa Island and the Cayman Islands. Seven island s
Havana Cathedral, built by the Spanish in Cuba between 1748 and 1777
Puerto Rico's historic district, Old San Juan, contains 16th-century architecture, including the Fort San Felipe del Morro, the Fort San Cristóbal, the City Wall of San Juan, and La Fortaleza.
Citadelle Laferrière, 19th-century fortress in Haiti. It was built by freed slaves as a defence against France
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
The West Indies are an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies in three arch
Greater Antilles
…sharing the island of Hispaniola. Together with the Lesser Antilles, they make up the Antilles, which along with the Lucayan Archipelago form the West Indies in the Caribbean region of the Americas. While most of the Greater Antilles consists of independent countries, Puerto Rico and Navassa Island are…
West Indies as seen from space at night, 2012
The subduction of the South American Plate and part of the North American Plate beneath the Caribbean Plate produces both the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the active volcanoes of the Lesser Antilles (bottom left of the image, south of the Virgin Islands)