Antillas

"Las Antillas, también conocidas como islas del Caribe o América Central insular, constituyen un numeroso grupo de archipiélagos conformado por las islas de Bahamas o Lucayas, las Antillas Mayores y las Antillas Menores, ubicado entre el mar Caribe y el océano Atlántico. Estas islas dibujan un arco que se extiende en forma de medialuna desde el sureste de la península de la Florida (Estados Unidos) y el este de la península de Yucatán (México), en Norteamérica, hasta la costa oriental de Venezuela, en Sudamérica. Todas las islas de las Antillas juntas tienen una superficie total de unos 299.000 km²."

"See also West Indies, Caribbean The Antilles (/æntliz/; Antilles [.tij] in French; Antillas in Spanish; Antillen in Dutch and Antilhas in Portuguese) are an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east. The Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: the Greater Antilles, which includes the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola (subdivided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and the Cayman Islands; and the Lesser Antilles, which contains the northerly Leeward Islands, the southeasterly Windward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Lucayan Archipelago (consisting of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands), though part of the West Indies, are generally not included among the Antillean islands. Geographically, the Antillean islands are generally considered a subregion of North America. Culturally speaking, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico and sometimes the whole of the Antilles are included in Latin America, although some sources avoid this socio-economic oversimplification by using the phrase "Latin America and the Caribbean" instead (see Latin America, "In Contemporary Usage"). In terms of geology, the Greater Antilles are made up of continental rock, as distinct from the Lesser Antilles, which are mostly young volcanic or coral islands."