Key facts
- Type
- Minor
- Approximate area
- 3,300,000 km
- Movement
- north-west
- Speed
- 10-11mm/year
- Features
- Central America , Greater Antilles , Lesser Antilles Caribbean Sea
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Encyclopedic overview
Volcanoes of the Caribbean.
The Caribbean plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caribbean Plate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.