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St Lucia in the West Indies. The tiny island (only 43 km/27 mi wide and 23 km/14 mi long) possesses lush rainforests in its mountainous interior.

Archipelago of about 1,200 islands, dividing the Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The archipelago is divided into:

Bahamas;

Greater Antilles: Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Republic), Jamaica, and Puerto Rico;

Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, the Windward Islands (Grenada, Barbados, St Vincent, St Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe), the Leeward Islands (Montserrat, Antigua, St Kitts and Nevis, Barbuda, Anguilla, St Martin, British and US Virgin Islands), and many smaller islands.



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ANTILLAS I is a submarine fiber optic system that links Puerto Rico with the Dominican Republic, being the first fiber optic system implemented with the Sincronous Diguital Herarchy (SDH) interconnecting the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean.
Geologically, the island of Jamaica is part of the tectonically active Greater Antilles Island Arc environment.
s Gaspar project, like it, occurs in the same Cretaceous volcanic rocks that form the backbone of the Greater Antilles island arc which hosts the giant Pueblo Viejo deposit in the neighbouring Dominican Republic.
 
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