Caribbean Sea

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body of water marginal sea part of the Atlantic Ocean

The Caribbean Sea is a tropical body of water in the Western Hemisphere known for its clear blue waters, extensive coral reefs, and numerous islands that form the Caribbean region.

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Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	body of water → marginal sea → part of the Atlantic Ocean →
area	about 2.75 million square kilometers →
borders	Atlantic Ocean → Gulf of Mexico →
boundedBy	Central America → Greater Antilles → Lesser Antilles → Yucatán Peninsula → northern coast of South America →
climate	tropical →
connectedTo	Atlantic Ocean → Gulf of Mexico → Pacific Ocean via Panama Canal →
economicActivity	fishing → shipping → tourism →
hasIslandGroup	Bahamas → Greater Antilles → Leeward Islands → Lesser Antilles → Virgin Islands → Windward Islands →
hasMajorPort	Cartagena → Colón → Havana → Kingston → San Juan → Santo Domingo →
hasMarineEcosystem	coral reefs → mangroves → seagrass beds →
hasPart	Caribbean Plate → Cayman Trough → Colombian Basin → Gulf of Honduras → Venezuelan Basin → Yucatán Basin →
knownFor	biodiversity → clear blue waters → extensive coral reefs → numerous tropical islands →
locatedIn	Western Hemisphere → tropics →
locatedOnContinent	North America → South America →
maximumDepth	about 7686 meters →
maximumDepthLocation	Cayman Trough →
partOf	Atlantic Ocean →
partOfRegion	Caribbean →
subjectTo	hurricanes → tropical cyclones →

Referenced by (414)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Antigua → Antigua and Barbuda → Antilles → Aruba → Barbados → Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System → Benjamin Rivera Noriega Airport → Bequia → Bodden Town → Bonaire → British Virgin Islands → British West Indies → Brownson Deep ("Caribbean Sea region") → Caribbean → Caribbean Netherlands → Caribbean Plate ("Caribbean Sea region") → Caribbean islands → Cayman Brac → Cayman Islands → Cayman Trough → Cayo Lobo → Cayo Luis Peña → Cayo Norte → Cayo Tiburón → Charlotte Amalie Harbor → Cinnamon Bay → Cockburn Town → Colombian Basin → Cuba → Culebra → Culebra National Wildlife Refuge → Culebra, Puerto Rico → Culebrita → Curaçao → Desecheo Island → Dominica → Dutch Caribbean → Esperanza Beach → Flamenco Beach → Fortín Conde de Mirasol → French Caribbean → George Town → Government of Puerto Rico → Grand Cayman → Greater Antilles → Grenada → Guadeloupe → Gulf of Cazones → Gulf of Honduras → Gulf of Paria → Gurabo ("Caribbean Sea region") → Haiti → Havana Bay → Hispaniola → Isabel Segunda → Isla Nena → Isla de San Juan → Isla de Vieques → Isla de la Juventud → Island of Spice → Jamaica → La Désirade → La Soufrière → Laguna del Condado ("Caribbean Sea region") → Leeward Islands → Lesser Antilles → Lesser Antilles and Lucayan Archipelago → Little Cayman → Mariel boatlift → Martinique → Mona Island → Mona Passage → Mona and Monito Islands Nature Reserve → Montserrat → Mosquito Bay → Municipality of Culebra → Mustique → Necker Island, British Virgin Islands → Netherlands Antilles → Nevis → October Crisis → PR → Petit Martinique → Playa Caracas → Playa Negra (Vieques) → Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority ("Caribbean Sea region") → Red Hook → Redonda → Rincón, Puerto Rico → Saba → Saint Barthélemy → Saint Croix → Saint John → Saint Lucia → Saint Thomas → Saint Thomas Harbor → Saint Thomas–Saint John District → Saint Vincent and the Grenadines → Sint Eustatius → South Caicos → Spanish Virgin Islands region → Spanish West Indies → St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands → Straits of Florida → Tortola → Trunk Bay → U.S. Caribbean territories → U.S. Virgin Islands → United States Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands → Venezuelan Basin → Vieques National Wildlife Refuge → Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument → Virgin Islands National Park → West Indies → West Indies Federation →	locatedIn
Antigua and Barbuda → Cayman Brac → Cayo Lobo → Chocó Department → Colombia → Colombian Caribbean region → Colón Province → Costa Rica → County of Surrey (Jamaica) → Dominican Republic → Esperanza Beach → Gros Islet → Guatemala → Haiti → Honduras → La Désirade → Martinique → Municipality of Culebra → Nicaragua → Panama → Parish of Portland → Playa Girón → Point Fortin → Quintana Roo → Saint Michael, Barbados → St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica → Venezuela → Veraguas Province → Vieques National Wildlife Refuge → West Bay →	hasCoastlineOn
Barranquilla → Batabanó → Cancún → Cartagena, Colombia → Castillo del Morro → Easington → Girón Beach → Goldeneye, Oracabessa, Jamaica → Guna Yala → Les Trois-Îlets → Lyssons → Léogâne → Morant Bay → Morant Point → Morant Point Lighthouse → Petit Piton → Playa Girón → Playa del Carmen → Port Morant → Port of Colón → Portobelo → Santiago de Cuba → Seaforth → Tulum → Turbo, Colombia → Vieux Fort → White Horses → Yallahs →	locatedOn
Belize City → Bridgetown → Charlestown, Nevis → Chocó Department → Colón → Colón Province → Kingstown → La Ceiba → Montego Bay → Parish of Portland → Parish of St. Thomas in the East → Playa Larga → Quintana Roo → Quintana Roo → Roseau → Saint Thomas Parish → Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic →	locatedOnCoastOf
British Virgin Islands → Caribbean Netherlands → Central America → Colón → Grenada → Guna Yala → Isla de San Juan → Isthmus of Panama → Leeward Islands → Lesser Antilles and Lucayan Archipelago → Northern Triangle of Central America → Quintana Roo → Saint Thomas Parish → Veraguas Province →	borderedBy
Anguilla → Black Beach (Vieques) → Cayo Ballena → Cayo Botella → Dewey → Dewey → Esperanza → Leith Hall → Playa Carlos Rosario → Playa Tamarindo → Playa Zoni → St. John’s →	locatedInBodyOfWater
Atlantic campaign of the American Revolutionary War → Battle of the Atlantic → Continental Navy → Cuban Missile Crisis → Granma expedition → Missile Scare → Operation Anadyr → Quasi-War → Spanish–American War → War of Jenkins' Ear →	location
Barú → Blackbeard's Castle → Cerro Jefe ("Caribbean Sea (on clear days)") → Esperanza → Fortín Conde de Mirasol → Magens Bay → Malecón de Esperanza → Playa Negra (Vieques) →	hasViewOf
Cayman Ridge → Magens Bay → Marie-Galante → Water Island → Western Caribbean → Windward Islands → Yucatán Basin ("Caribbean large marine ecosystem") →	partOf
Colombian Caribbean region → Darién Gap → Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve → Yucatán Peninsula → Zapata Peninsula →	borders
Colón Province → Ouest Department → Quintana Roo → San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area → Santiago de Cuba Province →	bordersBodyOfWater
Atlantic Ocean → Gulf of Mexico → Gulf of Paria → Lake Nicaragua → Loop Current →	connectedTo
Curaçao → Dutch Caribbean → Playa del Carmen → Saint Croix → Yucatán Basin →	sea
Antilles Current → Atlantic coast → Gulf Coast of the United States → United States territorial waters →	adjacentTo
At Sea → Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides → Slattery’s Hurricane → The Black Pirate →	setting
Battle of Nassau → Spanish Caribbean Squadron → U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command → Urgent Fury ("Caribbean Sea region") →	theater
Belize → Mexico → Venezuela →	borderBodyOfWater
Cuba → Guadeloupe → Saint Vincent and the Grenadines →	borderedBySea
Gran Lago → Lake Managua ("Caribbean Sea basin") → Leith Hall →	drainageBasin
Vieux Fort → Yallahs → Yucatán Peninsula →	hasCoastline
Antioquia Department → Hispaniola → Tobagonian →	hasCoastOn
Cayo Ballena → Cuba (maritime boundary) → French colony of Saint-Domingue →	locatedInSea
Red Hook → St. George's → Tulum →	nearbyBodyOfWater
Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla → Pascual Cervera y Topete → Piet Hein →	placeOfActivity
Antilles → Greater Antilles → Isthmus of Panama →	separates
Greater Antilles → Saint Kitts and Nevis →	border
Mona Passage → Panama Canal →	connects
Asia–Caribbean shipping routes → Florida Current →	connectsBodyOfWater
America → Caribbean →	contains
Antioquia Department → Republic of Yucatán →	hasBorderWith
Caribbean theater of the Spanish–American War → Middle Passage →	hasLocation
Rowlandsfield → White Horses →	hasNearbyBodyOfWater
Eastern Mexico → Greater Antilles →	hasSea
Goldeneye, Oracabessa, Jamaica → Sierra Maestra →	hasView
Esperanza Beach → Saint Thomas Harbor →	hasWaterBody
Port-au-Prince → St. George's, Grenada →	isPortCityOn
Cedar Valley ("Caribbean Sea region") → Tap Hus →	locatedInBodyOfWaterRegion
Dewey → Frederik Lutheran Church →	locatedInCaribbean
Chetumal → Hordley →	locatedNear
Charlotte Amalie → Soufrière →	locatedOnBodyOfWater
Mona ground iguana → West Indian manatee →	nativeTo
Malecón de Esperanza → Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios →	near
Camilo Cienfuegos → Giovanni da Verrazzano →	placeOfDeath
Danish West India Company → Fort Christian →	region
Esek Hopkins → Pirates ("CaribbeanSea") →	regionOfActivity
National Hurricane Center → Royal Navy North America and West Indies Station →	regionServed
Great White Fleet → Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch →	serviceArea
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End → Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest →	setIn
Atlantic Fleet → USS Portsmouth →	theaterOfOperations
Blue Mountain Peak ("Caribbean Sea (on clear days)") → Petit Piton →	viewOf
Morant Point → Venezuelan Basin →	waterBody
Hurricane Agnes (1972) →	affectedArea
Giovanni Battista Antonelli →	areaOfInfluence
U.S. Fleet Forces Command →	areaOfResponsibility
El Draque →	associatedWithRegion
Puerto Rico →	borderedByBodyOfWater
Latin America →	borderedByOcean
Trinidad and Tobago →	borderedByWaterBody
Aruba →	borderingBodyOfWater
Edward Winslow →	deathPlace
Cayman Trough →	deepestPointOf
Sierra Madre de Chiapas →	drainageTo
Lake Nicaragua →	drainsTo
Morant River →	emptiesInto
voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas →	exploredRegion
North American plate boundary system →	extendsUnder
Special Committee for Transport →	geographicalFocus
Cyril E. King Airport →	hasApproachOver
Giant Ocean Tank →	hasExhibitTheme
U.S. Southern Command →	hasOperationalArea
Cayo Tiburón →	hasSurroundingWaterBody
Jamaica →	hasTerritorialWater
Nine Years' War →	hasTheatre
Atlantic hurricanes →	includesRegion
Association of Caribbean States →	includesSubregion
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone →	includesWatersOff
The Gulf Stream →	inspiredBy
Venezuelan Basin →	isMajorStructuralDepressionOf
Basseterre →	isPortOn
Les Abymes →	locatedInOcean
Tutu →	locatedInOceanRegion
Monito Island →	locatedInRegion
Sargasso Sea →	locatedNortheastOf
Lucayan Archipelago →	locatedNorthOf
Lake Managua →	locatedWestOf
The Gulf Stream →	locationOfDepictedScene
Anglo-Dutch Wars →	mainTheater
Yallahs River →	mouthLocatedIn
Morant River →	mouthOfWatercourse
USS Alfred →	navalTheater
Septentrional-Oriente fault zone →	ocean
Antilles →	oceanicContext
Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone →	oceanRegion
Royal Netherlands Navy →	operatesIn
Joint Interagency Task Force South →	operatingArea
The Pitons →	overlooks
Tobagonian ("southern Caribbean Sea") →	regionOfOrigin
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory →	researchFocus
Granma expedition →	route
Antigua →	seaBorder
Gulf of Paria →	separatedFrom
Treasure Island (1934 film) →	setInLocation
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl →	setInRegion
Islands in the Stream →	settingLocation
Florida Current →	sourceRegion
Venezuelan Basin →	subBasinOf
CFU regional competitions ("Caribbean Sea region") →	subregion
Nevis →	surroundedBy
Cuban War of Independence →	theaterOfWar
Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) →	theatre
Pirates of the Caribbean →	theme
Petit Piton →	visibleFrom
William T. Sampson →	workLocation