Antillas

The Antilles (; Spanish: Antillas; Haitian Creole: Zantiy; French: Antilles; Papiamento: Antias; Dutch: Antillen; Jamaican Patois: Antiliiz) is 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 and the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles includes the larger islands of the Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola (subdivided into the nations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. The Lesser Antilles contains the northerly Leeward Islands and the southeasterly Windward Islands as well as the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Lucayan Archipelago (consisting of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands), though a part of the West Indies, is 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.

Las Antillas​ (en inglés, Antilles ; en criollo haitiano Zantiy; en francés, Antilles; en papiamento Antias; en neerlandés, Antillen; en patois jamaiquino Antiliiz) constituyen un numeroso grupo de archipiélagos conformado por las islas de Bahamas o Lucayas, las Grandes Antillas y las Pequeñas Antillas,​ 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.