The keyhole sand dollar ( three species, genus Mellita ) is found on a wide range of coasts in and around the Caribbean Sea.

The eastern side of the Peninsula is a long expanse of white sand beach and heavy mangrove in some areas ; the western side is bounded by a long narrow north-south trending bay of the Caribbean Sea.

After they digest the rock, they excrete it as sand, helping to create small islands and the sandy beaches of the Caribbean.

The Caribbean coastline is a series of crescent shaped white sand beaches interrupted every 1 – 10 km by rocky headlands and inlets, called caletas, through which groundwater discharges into the coastal water.

They are found from the Western Caribbean Sea to Cape Cod and most of South and Central America's east coast, over sand or mud in depths of at least 5 feet ( 1. 5 m ).

Tungiasis ( also known as " Nigua ," " Pio and bicho de pie ," " Pique ") is an inflammatory skin disease caused by infection of the female ectoparasitic Tunga penetrans flea ( also known as chigoe flea, jigger, nigua or sand flea ), found in the tropical parts of Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and India.

1 East Caribbean dollar ( EC $) = 100 cents

Supranational currencies, such as the East Caribbean dollar, the CFP franc, the CFA franc BEAC and the CFA franc BCEAO are normally also represented by codes beginning with an " X ".

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank ( ECCB ) issues a common currency ( the East Caribbean dollar ) for all members of the ECCU.

Currency: 1 East Caribbean dollar ( EC $)

St. Kitts & Nevis uses the Eastern Caribbean dollar, which maintains a fixed exchange rate of 2. 7-to-one with the United States dollar.

The US dollar is almost as widely accepted as the Eastern Caribbean dollar.

St. Kitts and Nevis is a member of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union ( ECCU ) The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank ( ECCB ) issues a common currency ( the East Caribbean dollar ) for all members of the ECCU.

1 East Caribbean dollar ( EC $) = 100 cents

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank ( ECCB ) issues a common currency ( the East Caribbean dollar ) to all eight members of the ECCU.

1 East Caribbean dollar ( EC $)

Currency: 1 East Caribbean dollar ( XCD )

The Canadian dollar ( as a regional reserve currency for banking ) has been an important part of the British, French and Dutch Caribbean state's economies and finance systems since the 1950s.

The Canadian dollar ( as a regional reserve currency for banking ) has been an important part of the British, French and Dutch Caribbean states ' economies and finance systems since the 1950s.

This did not affect the Spanish dollar accounts that were being used in the British territories in the Eastern Caribbean because these were merely paper units that were being used in conjunction with sterling coinage at a fixed rate of $ 1 = 4s 2d.

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( To a certain extent, this issue also affects Caribbean coinage, countries whose currencies are pegged to the U. S. dollar, and the British 5p, 10p, and 50p, all of which are similar in size and value to the U. S. and Canadian dime, quarter and dollar coins ; the Atlantic Ocean generally minimizes the cross-circulation of these coins.

The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

Its lowest point is the Caribbean Sea and its highest point is Mount Sage at above sea level.

With the independence and the influences of the European Industrial Revolution the main way of transport in Colombia became the navigation mainly through the Magdalena River which connected Honda in inland Colombia, with Barranquilla by the Caribbean sea to the trade with the United States and Europe.

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the Western hemisphere.

The Caribbean Sea was an unknown body of water to the populations of Eurasia until 1492, when Christopher Columbus first sailed into Caribbean waters on a quest to find a sea route to Asia.

El Salvador is the smallest Central American country in area and is the only one without a coastline on the Caribbean sea.

Located as the southernmost of the Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea, Guadeloupe comprises two main islands: Basse-Terre Island, Grande-Terre ( separated from Basse-Terre by a narrow sea channel called Salt River ) forming Guadeloupe proper.

The Migrant Operations Center on Guantanamo typically keeps fewer than 30 people interdicted at sea in the Caribbean region.

The relationship between the two Latin American countries has evolved amid conflicts over the San Andrés y Providencia Islands located in the Caribbean sea close to the Nicaraguan shoreline and the maritime boundaries covering 150, 000 km² that included the islands of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina and the banks of Roncador, Serrana, Serranilla and Quitasueño as well as the arbitrarily designed 82nd meridian west which Colombia claims as a border but which the International Court has sided with Nicaragua in disavowing.

Another example is the conch pearl ( sometimes referred to simply as the ' pink pearl '), which is found very rarely growing between the mantle and the shell of the queen conch or pink conch, Strombus gigas, a large sea snail or marine gastropod from the Caribbean Sea.

The Indigenous West Indians made excellent sea vessels that they used to sail the Atlantic and Caribbean.

Following the French Revolution, French privateers became a menace to British and American shipping in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean, resulting in the Quasi-War, a brief conflict between France and the United States, fought largely at sea, and to the Royal Navy's procuring Bermuda sloops to combat the French privateers.

* Central American and Caribbean Games, held first in 1926, every 4 years for nations in the Caribbean, Central America and / or borderind the Caribbean sea

* Caribbean Games, proposed to be held first in June 2009 for countries in the Caribbean sea, was scheduled in Netherlands Antiles in May 2011.

A " Stingray City " in the sea surrounding the Caribbean island of Antigua consists of a large, shallow reserve where the rays live, and snorkeling is possible, since the rays are used to the presence of humans.

Belmopan is inland from the Caribbean and 76 meters ( 250 ft ) above sea level, located near the Belize River Valley with a view of the Mountain Pine Ridge foothills.

* Cochlespira elegans, a sea snail species found in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Greater Antilles

Image: urchin003. jpg | Group of black, long-spined Caribbean sea urchins, Diadema antillarum ( Philippi )

The lowest point is the Caribbean Sea at 0 m ( sea level ) and the highest point is Pico Turquino at, part of the Sierra Maestra mountain range, located in the southeast of the island.

Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was originally a psychopomp, charged to ferry souls of the dead to the Netherworld by the sea goddess Calypso.

The Portugués River springs from the ward of that name in Adjuntas, and runs for 17. 3 miles ( 27. 6 km ) into the Caribbean sea at Ponce Playa ward.