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Curimon School




INTEGRANTS:
Mª Antonieta BisbalMª Ángeles Assler
Valentina Pinto
Mª Elisa Lemaitre

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INTRODUCTION-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3

HISTORY ANDGEOGRAPHY-------------------------------------------------------------- 4

PROVINCES------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5

GOVERNMENT AND LEGAL STATUS-------------------------------------------------- 6

RELATIONSHIP WITH CANADA---------------------------------------------------------- 9TOURISM----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1O

TYPICAL MUSIC-------------------------------------------------------------------------------12

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INTRODUCTION


The West Indies Federation was formed out of the then British colonies in the West Indies in 1958 and it collapsed in 1962. Its flag was ablue field bearing four equally-spaced horizontal wavy lines with a gold disk over the middle two lines in the centre of the flag. It represented the Caribbean Sea and the sunshine of the region. The flag was originally designed by Eda Manley.

The West Indies Federation consisted of Jamaica, the Caymans and Turks and Caicos Islands (both now crown colonies and separated from Jamaica), Trinidadand Tobago, Barbados, Antigua, Montserrat, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, Grenada, St Vincent, St Lucia and Dominica. It did not include the Bahamas or the British Virgin Islands.



HISTORY

The West Indies Federation, also known as the Federation of the West Indies, was a short-lived Caribbean federation that existed from January 3, 1958, to May 31, 1962. It consisted of several Caribbeancolonies of the United Kingdom.

POPULATION AND GEOGRAPHY
The total population of the West Indies Federation is between 3 and 4 million people, with the majority being of black West African descent. Minorities included Indians from the subcontinent (called East Indians), Europeans, Chinese, and Caribs. There was also a large population of mixed descent (mainly mulattos, but also Afro-Indian,Euro-Indian and mixed-Chinese).The West Indies Federation (or just West Indies) consisted of around 24 main inhabited islands and approximately 220–230 minor offshore islands, islets and cays (some inhabited, some uninhabited). The largest island is Jamaica, located in the far northwest of the Federation. To the southeast lay the second largest island, Trinidad, followed by Barbados (in terms ofpopulation), located at the eastern extremity of the Federation.

The Federation spanned across all the island groupings in the Caribbean:
- The Greater Antilles: Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands
- The Lesser Antilles:
 Barbados, east of the Windward Islands
 Leeward Islands: Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and Montserrat
 Windward Islands:Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada
 Trinidad and Tobago

The climate in all the islands is tropical, with hot and humid weather, although inland regions in the larger islands have more temperate climates. Regions falling within the rain shadows (southern coasts of Jamaica and Trinidad and eastern coasts of the Lesser Antilles) are relatively drier. There are two...