Caribbean Water Bodies
Objective: Locate and name the two main water bodies that border Caribbean territories.
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the Western hemisphere. It is
bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and southwest, to the north by the Greater
Antilles, and to the east by the Lesser Antilles.
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about
106,400,000 square kilometres (41,100,000 sq mi), it covers approximately twenty percent of the Earth's
surface and about twenty-six percent of its water surface area.
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