Caribbean subrealm
| Caribbean | |
|---|---|
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| One Earth ID: | NT26 |
| Continent: | North America |
| Biogeography | |
| Udvardy realm: | Neotropical |
| One Earth realm: | Central America & Caribbean (Upper Neotropic) |
| One Earth subrealm: | Caribbean |
| One Earth bioregion: | Caribbean Islands |
| Ecoregions: | 20 |
| Political geography | |
| Countries: | see text |
| Territories: | see text |
Geography
Biogeography
The Caribbean subrealm belongs to the Central America & Caribbean (Upper Neotropic) realm. It has only a single bioregion, the Caribbean Islands (NT26).
The 20 ecoregions making up the Caribbean subrealm and bioregion are the Bahamian pineyards, Bahamian-Antillean mangroves, Caribbean shrublands, Cuban cactus scrub, Cuban dry forests, Cuban moist forests, Cuban pine forests, Cuban wetlands, Enriquillo wetlands, Everglades flooded grasslands, Hispaniolan dry forests, Hispaniolan moist forests, Hispaniolan pine forests, Jamaican dry forests, Jamaican moist forests, Leeward Islands moist forests, Lesser Antillean dry forests, Puerto Rican dry forests, Puerto Rican moist forests, and Windward Islands moist forests.
Political geography
Countries that are entirely located in the Caribbean subrealm include Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Grenada, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Territories located in this subrealm include Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands administered by the United Kingdom; Aruba, the Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten (Dutch part) administered by the Netherlands; Clipperton Island, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, and Saint Martin (French part) administered by France; and Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands administered by the United States. The southern portion of the US state of Florida is included as well.