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1 September – Day of the Black Person and Afro-Costa Rican Culture; 10 September – St. George's Caye Day, Belize; 14 September – Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua; 15 September – Independence Day, Nicaragua; 22 September – Independence Day, Belize (in lieu of Sunday 21 September)
Norfolk, Virginia — Virginia CaribFest [63] (2nd weekend in September). Washington, D.C. — DC Caribbean Festival, [64] usually between June 16–24 every year. Worcester, Massachusetts — Worcester Caribbean American Carnival, [65] The day after Boston, MA Carnival.
Situated on the border between South and Central America, the park consists of a wide range of habitats including sandy and rocky coastlines, mangroves, swamps, upland and lowland tropical forests. Two Indian tribes, the Chocó and the Kuna live in the property. [8] Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve † La Mosquitia, Honduras
By the 1930s the United Fruit Company owned 14,000 square kilometres (3.5 million acres) of land in Central America and the Caribbean and was the single largest land owner in Guatemala. Such holdings gave it great power over the governments of small countries.
In addition, the Caribbean is home to a number of popular summertime folk festivals. The Caribbean has also produced many notable composers, who have contributed in a variety of ways to the history of Western classical music. The Caribbean is home to the Indo-Caribbean musical form of Chutney. It was created in Trinidad and Tobago by Sundar Popo.
American tourists traveled to The Bahamas and Cuba. [3] In the 1920s, tourists visited the Caribbean for pleasurable, sun-bathing vacations. Sun exposure was considered healthy at that time and tans were a symbol of "spontaneity and sensuality" among the wealthy. [8] Before World War II, more than 100,000 tourists visited the region a year. [9]
The Caribbean Lowlands are region of plains along the eastern coast of several Central American nations along the Caribbean Sea, including Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Geography
The Latin American and Caribbean countries with the most representative democracy were Costa Rica, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and Jamaica and least democratic were Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela according to 2024 V-Dem Democracy Report. [3] Map of V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index in Latin America and the Caribbean for 2023