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Providenciales (known locally as Provo) is an island in the northwest Caicos Islands, part of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory. [2] The island has an area of 98 km 2 (38 sq mi) and a 2012 Census population of 23,769. [ 1 ]
The island contains about 1,000 acres (405 ha) of land, a mile-long beach and features a high-end beach resort with 61 rooms. [2] Parrot Cay became a private island resort in 1998. It is located about 575 miles (925 km) south east of Miami, and can be reached by a 35-minute boat ride from Providenciales, the main island in Turks and Caicos.
The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; [7] / ˈ t ɜːr k s / and / ˈ k eɪ k ə s,-k oʊ s,-k ɒ s /) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies. [8]
Tourism in the Turks and Caicos Islands is an industry that generates more than 1 million tourist arrivals per year, [1] and is "the main source of revenue for the country. The tourism industry began in the 1980s, with the opening of Club Med Turquoise, the country's first main resort."
Salt Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands is in the middle of the humpback whales' annual migratory route to the Silver Banks, a humpback mating and nursery area, north of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Sea. It is a 75-square-mile (190 km 2) shallow coral reef area, an underwater plateau of limestone. It is believed that the whales choose ...
North Caicos is 19 km (12 miles) from Providenciales, which offers daily ferry trips to the island. Together with Parrot Cay (4.9 km 2 ), and Bay Cay off the eastern shore (at 12.9 km 2 the sixth-largest island of the territory) and a few more uninhabited offshore cays, it forms the North Caicos District, with an area of 144.9 km 2 .
This is a list of cities in the Turks and Caicos Islands: Back Salina; Blue Hills; Blue Mountain; Bottle Creek; Breezy Brae; Chalk Sound; Cheshire Hall; Cockburn Harbour (South Caicos Town) Cockburn Town; Discovery Bay; Downtown; Five Cays; Grace Bay; Great Salina; Honda Road; Juba; Kew; Kew Town; Leeward; Long Bay Hill; Middle Caicos; North ...
Beaches Resorts is an operator of all-inclusive resorts for couples & families in the Caribbean, founded in 1997. [1] Beaches Resorts and Sandals Resorts are part of Sandals Resorts International (SRI) which is a parent company to five resort brands across seven countries.