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Cayo Largo del Sur, also known simply as Cayo Largo, is a little island no more than 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) long and 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) wide. It is the second-biggest island in Cuba’s Canarreos Archipelago.....
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The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea. The island has a variety of ecosystems ranging from arid plains to tropical rain forests created by three roughly parallel east-west mountain ranges. The northernmost of these ranges, the Cordillera Septentrional, is visible in this astronaut photograph as the dark green region north of the river.....
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Small fires dot Cuba and the southern tip of Florida (United States) while white clouds are scattered throughout the region’s skies. The fires show smoke plumes at the higher resolutions of the image (500- and 250-meters per pixel), but are still relatively small and ......
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Cuba is the largest of the Caribbean islands, with a long, complex coastline and considerable chains of offshore islands. Coral reefs stretch along virtually the entire border of the Cuban shelf. The majority of these reefs lie offshore in long tracts which resemble barrier reefs, separated from the main island by broad lagoons.
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