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Place Human Charastics • A high amount of housing is squatter settlements • Languages include Spanish, French, English, and Dutch • The music of reggae, calypso, merengue, rumba, and zouk are influenced by their African and European roots • Caribbean cruise ships and scuba diving contribute to the abundant amount of tourism • Average life expectancy is roughly 70 years • In Haiti, bamboo trumpets, saxophones, and percussion make up the ra-ra music type • Papiamento is a language that blends Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and African language is the lingua franca • Most Haitians speak patois, which is influenced by African culture and spoken mainly in homes, the streets and oral traditions • The blend of European and African cultures is called Creolization • The Garifuna people are decendents of the African slaves • The Garifuna people now speak Amerindian

Physical Features: • Average temperature is in the 70s year round • Most of rain fall occurs from July to October • Typically, about 6 hurricanes occur during the season causing limited damage • Tropical Rainforests mainly in the Rimlands, Guiana and Belize • The Guiana’s’ are not affected by the hurricanes <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">• Tropical coconut trees <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 200%;">•  In Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao, Anguilla and the Cayman Islands, they have world class resorts because of the arid lands <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 200%;">• The Pico Duarte in the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic is higher than 10,000 ft tall

Change: adapt:
 * built national parks to increas wildlife and awaremess
 * several dams were built on islands to help supply water to people
 * Europeans cut down Caribean's forests to make room for sugarcane fields
 * mangrove swamps were made to make beaches
 * Since the soil easily eroded and didn't produce good harvest, they developed two strategies, clear new land, and abondon old land conserve soil and maintain fertility.
 * Residents of Montserrant had to evactuate at certain times due to volcanic activity.
 * They had to adapt with climate to support agriculture, and the colonial economy hobbled along by producing salt and raising goats.
 * Savanas have fertile soil which are good for farming.
 * Limestones base in Cuba results in fertile red clay soil.
 * The Sahara grows while the Sahel shrinks forcing people to leave the land.

Economic Regions

Offshore banking CARICOM Free Trade Zones (FTZs) "zero option"
 * offers specialized services to foreign banks and corporations
 * confidentail and tax-exempt
 * attracts money tied to drug trade
 * Caribbean Community and Common Market
 * proposed regional industrialization plan
 * proposed formation of Caribbean Development Bank
 * help poorer states
 * duty free and tax-exempt industrial parks for foreign corporations
 * make foreign ownership legal
 * direct foreign investment
 * cheap labor
 * in cuba
 * no subsidized food or fuel from Soviet Union
 * no guarenteed ,arket for Cuban citrus and sugar
 * economic rules changed