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Caribbean Plate

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tectonic plate

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

via Wikipedia infobox

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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.