A marginal sea in the western Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered to the west and south by Central and South America, and to the north and east by the Greater and Lesser Antilles. Its scope is defined as: starting from Catocut Point of the Yucatan Peninsula, going in a clockwise direction through the Yucatan Strait to Cuba, then to Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, and passing through Ane It is bounded by the line from the Strait of Garda to the Lesser Antilles and along the outer edges of these islands to Punta Baya in Venezuela. The line connecting the mouth of the Yucatan Channel is the dividing line between the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. The Caribbean Sea is about 2,735 kilometers long from east to west, 805-1,287 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 2.754 million square kilometers, a volume of 6.86 million cubic kilometers, and an average water depth of 2,491 meters. The currently known maximum water depth is 7,100 meters, located in the Cayman Trench.
Caribbean geographical location map
On the coast of St. Lucia in the Caribbean, there are still forts from the colonial wars.
The zigzag curved coastline of Central and South America divides this area into several major waters: the Gulf of Honduras off the coast of Guatemala and Honduras; Mosquito Bay near the coast of Panama; the Panama Canal near Colon, Panama; Panama and Colombia The Gulf of Darien on the border; the Gulf of Venezuela outside the mouth of Lake Maracaibo in northern Venezuela; and the Gulf of Paria between Venezuela and Trinidad. Most rivers in Central America flow into the Caribbean Sea, but most rivers in South America join the Orinoco River and flow into the Atlantic Ocean just south of Port of Spain. The main imports and exports of the Caribbean Sea are the Yucatan Strait between Yucatan and Cuba, the Windward Channel between Cuba and Hispaniola, and the Mona Strait between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. , Anegada Strait between the Virgin Islands and Martin Strait, and the Dominican Strait north of Dominica Island. The water depth in each strait is more than 1,000 meters.
Sailing on the Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea basin is separated by several ridges, making the basins and trenches staggered. The northernmost Yucatan Basin has a water depth of about 5,000 meters. It is bounded by the 220-kilometer-wide Yucatan Strait to the north and separated by the Cayman Ridge and Cayman Trench in the south. This ridge reaches directly from Cuba to the coast of Central America, and the Cayman Islands are exposed to the east of it. The Cayman Trench is quite narrow and contains the Caribbean Sea's maximum water depth (7,100 meters). Further south, there is the wider wedge-shaped Nicaragua Rise, which separates the trench from the Columbia Basin, and the island of Jamaica sits on this rise. The Colombian Basin is 3,666 meters deep and is connected to the Venezuelan Basin. Further east is the North Venezuela Trench. But westward from Hispaniola, the Beata Ridge separates the Colombian Basin from the Venezuelan Basin. The water depth of the Venezuelan Sea Basin is 5058 meters, and it is adjacent to the narrow and curved Aves Rise.
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