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CARIBBEAN SEA
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of ​​tropical open Atlantic Ocean, located east of Central America and northern South America, covering the surface of the Caribbean plate. It is also calledCaribbean Sea to be located south and west of the Antillean arc.
Its northern border calls Greater Antilles-Cuba, Spanish (Haiti and Dominican Republic) and Puerto Rico, located south of the Tropicof Cancer, the east by the Lesser Antilles (meridian 60 ° W), south to Venezuela, Colombia and Panama (9 ° N parallel), and west by Mexico, Belize and Guatemala (meridian 88 ° W), and Honduras,Nicaragua and Costa Rica (longitude 84 ° W).
The Caribbean Sea is one of the largest salt seas in the world and has an area of ​​about 2,763,800 km ². The deepest point of the sea is the grave of theCayman Islands, located between Cuba and Jamaica to 7,686 m below sea level. The largest country in both coastal and territorial waters in the Caribbean is Venezuela, with 4,208 km of coastline spanningfrom east to west through islands and archipelagos. The Caribbean coastline has many gulfs and bays: the Gulf of Venezuela, the Morrosquillo, that of Darien, the Mosquito and Honduras. "The Caribbean"is a region formed by the Caribbean Sea, its islands and the costs surrounding this Caribbean sea.The communicates with the Pacific Ocean through the Panama Canal.

FLORA AND FAUNA.
The flora of theCaribbean Sea has a rich biodiversity. It is estimated that the Caribbean has 13,000 species of plants and over 6,500 of these are endemic. Some of the plants to be found are the olive tree which islocated mainly in the Dominican Republic, star apple that spreads throughout the Caribbean region, the IPE (national flower of Jamaica), kapok (national tree of Puerto Rico and Guatemala) and mahogany(national tree of Dominican Republic).

CLIMATE
Average temperature of the surfaces in the Caribbean Sea (August 25-August 27, 2005) .28
The Caribbean climate is influenced by ocean currents...