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Where the map turns turquoise and your watch quietly gives up.
means The region of warm tropical seas, islands, and surrounding coasts stretching from Florida down to South America.
from Named for the Caribs, the Indigenous people European arrivals met here; the Spanish caribe also spawned the word cannibal via wild rumor.
Sea sizeRoughly 2.7 million square kilometers of blue.
Island countOver 7,000 islands, islets, and cays.
Deepest pointCayman Trough plunges past 7,600 meters.
Pirate eraTortuga and Port Royal were real buccaneer havens.