Tuesday, June 13, 2006

SAN ANDRES Y PROVIDENCIA




San Andres y Providencia is a small Island which counts towards a part of Colombian territory.

It is located 480 miles North-West of the Colombian mainland in the Caribbean Sea, in close ecological and archaeological contact with the northern part of Colombia, Central America and other islands in the Caribbean. It is made up of the islands of San Andrés, Providence and St. Catherine; Bolívar and Albuquerque islets; Cotton, Haynes, Johnny, Roncador, Serrana, Serranilla, Quitasueño, Rocky, and Crab cays and Alicia and Bajo Nuevo sand banks.

It is a beautiful island that clearly expresses the fusion of various cultures: indigineous, African, Spanish, british and french. They speak a fusion of french, english and Spanish, creating a "Creolle English."

It has an "acuarium," that is actually the ocean itself, where the tourist only uses gogles to discover what is underneath the sea. It is known for its peacful atmosphere and its multicolored ocean.

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