Lesser Antilles - Pequenas Antilhas

At Lesser Antilles form a region of the Caribbean. They are formed by the peaks of 18 volcanoes, arranged for more than 700 km, in the meeting zone of the tectonic plates of the Caribbean and the South America. They are also known as Leeward Islands (the ones further north) and Windward Islands (further south). Sometimes the southern part of the Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire and Curacao), Aruba and also Trinidad and Tobago they are not classified as belonging to the region.

countries

• Antigua and Barbuda
  • Antigua
  • bearded
• Barbados
• Dominica
• Grenade (divides the Grenadines with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Cristopher
  • nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (divides the Grenadines with Grenade)
  • Saint Vincent
  • Grenadines
• Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tobago
  • Trinidad

territories

• Anguilla (Cologne british)

• Netherlands Antilles (part of Netherlands)
  • Aruba
  • Bonaire
  • Curacao
  • Saba
  • Sint Eustatius
  • Sint Maarten (part of an island divided with Guadeloupe)

• Guadeloupe (overseas department of France)
  • Basse-Terre
  • Saint Martin (part of an island shared with the Netherlands Antilles)

• virgin islands
  • US Virgin Islands (territory of USA)
  • British Virgin Islands and Agroba Islands (colony of british)

• Martinique (overseas department of France)

• Montserrat (Cologne british)

Cities

• Port of Spain
• orange state

Other destinations

Understand

are called Leeward Islands: US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, the northern group of Netherlands Antilles (Sint Eustatius, Saba and the southern part of Saint Martin – the northern part belongs to the French territory of Guadeloupe), Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe and Dominica. are known for Windward Islands: Martinique, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenade.

These territories were disputed, over the centuries, by Spain, France, England and Netherlands, of which they were or still are colonies. The independence of most of them took place between the 1960s and 1980s.

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English, French, Dutch and Creole are the most widely spoken languages.

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