1st Annual Cary Caribbean Festival

The Town of Cary in conjunction with the United Puerto Rican Assoc. of NC invites you to celebrate the 1st Caribbean Festival to be held @ Herbert C Young Community Center on September 19, 2009 starting at 2pm til 7pm.  Don't miss it!!!   Caribbean Fest flyer_1.pdf (2,1 MB)

Joining us will be representation from the Greater Antilles, Leeser Antilles (Leeward Islands, Windward Islands and Leeward Antilles).

1stCaryCaribbeanFestProgram.pdf (58,6 kB)

Greater Antilles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Location of the Greater Antilles (green) in relation to the rest of the Caribbean

The Greater Antilles is one of three island groups in the Caribbean. Comprising Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica and Hispaniola --the four largest islands of the Antilles--the Greater Antilles constitutes almost 90% of the land mass of the entire West Indies.

•  Puerto Rico (U.S.commonwealth)
•  Cuba
• Hispaniola
  •  Haiti
  •  Dominican Republic
•  Jamaica
•  Cayman Islands

The Lesser Antilles

The main Lesser Antilles are (from north to south to west):

Leeward Islands:

• •  U.S. Virgin Islands: Saint Croix, Saint Thomas, Saint John.
  •  British Virgin Islands (UK): Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke
  •  Anguilla (UK)
  • Saint Martin
    •  Saint Martin (Fr.)      
    •  Sint Maarten (Neth. Ant.)
  •  Saint Barthélemy (Fr.)
  •  Saba (Neth. Ant.)
  •  Saint Kitts and Nevis
  •  Sint Eustatius (Neth. Ant.)
  •  Antigua and Barbuda
    • Redonda (Ant.)
• •  Montserrat (UK)
  •  Guadeloupe (Fr. Ant.)

Windward Islands:

          Dominica                   

          Martinique (Fr. Ant.)

         Saint Lucia

          Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

•          Grenada
  •  Barbados (Barbados is a Continental Island found 100 miles east of the Windward chain)
  •  Trinidad and Tobago (are sometimes erroneously considered part of the Windward Islands. They are the most southern islands of the Caribbean region. 
    • Tobago
    • Trinidad

Leeward Antilles – islands north of the Venezuelan coast (from west to east):

•  Curaçao (Neth. Ant.)
•  Aruba (Neth.)
•  Bonaire (Neth. Ant.)

• Margarita Island (Ven)
• Coche (Ven)
• La Tortuga (Ven)
• Cubagua (Ven)
• Venezuelan Archipelago (Ven)