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Situated in
the southwestern Caribbean, 800 km north of the coast of Colombia
and 200 km east of Nicaragua, the archipelago of San Andrés, Old
Providence and Santa Catalina consists of three inhabited islands
and several uninhabited cays (see map below). The archipelago
has a land area of 57 km2 and an oceanic area of 300,000 km2.
The archipelago was declared the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve by
UNESCO in 2000. The estimated population of the archipelago is
85,000. The people are descendants of English settlers, African
slaves and mainland Colombians. The local currency is the Colombian
peso.
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to read about Small Islands Voice in the San Andres Archipelago
Map: © Copyright
2003 Esther Lutz. All rights reserved. Used with permission. www.westcaribbenislands.com
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