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| - | **2025 Ze Race - Guadeloupe **photo: [[https://youtu.be/HIbbWBXon7E|Pierre Villela video]] | + | **2025 Ze Race - Guadeloupe **photo: [[https://youtu.be/HIbbWBXon7E|Pierre Vilella video]] |
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| **From Wikipedia**: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Sea|The Caribbean Sea]] is a sea of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean|North Atlantic Ocean]] in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropics|tropics]] of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere|Western Hemisphere]], located south of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico|Gulf of Mexico]] and southwest of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargasso_Sea|Sargasso Sea]]. It is bounded by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Antilles|Greater Antilles]] to the north from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba|Cuba]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico|Puerto Rico]], the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Antilles|Lesser Antilles]] to the east from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Islands|Virgin Islands]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America|South America]] to the south from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela|Venezuelan coastline]] to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia|Colombian coastline]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America|Central America]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucatán_Peninsula|Yucatán Peninsula]] to the west from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama|Panama]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico|Mexico]]." | **From Wikipedia**: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Sea|The Caribbean Sea]] is a sea of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean|North Atlantic Ocean]] in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropics|tropics]] of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere|Western Hemisphere]], located south of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico|Gulf of Mexico]] and southwest of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargasso_Sea|Sargasso Sea]]. It is bounded by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Antilles|Greater Antilles]] to the north from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba|Cuba]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico|Puerto Rico]], the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Antilles|Lesser Antilles]] to the east from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Islands|Virgin Islands]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America|South America]] to the south from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela|Venezuelan coastline]] to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia|Colombian coastline]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America|Central America]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucatán_Peninsula|Yucatán Peninsula]] to the west from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama|Panama]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico|Mexico]]." | ||
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| + | The **Caribbean Islands** have also been known as the "**West Indies**" - The Caribbean islands were called the West Indies by Europeans because they were west of India, which was known as the Indies. The term was coined by Christopher Columbus in 1492. | ||
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| + | ==== Weather ==== | ||
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| + | * [[https://blog.tempest.earth/caribbean-wind-blog-overview-of-caribbean-trade-winds-part-1/|Caribbean Wind Blog]] | ||
| + | * [[https://www.cruisingworld.com/destinations/understanding-west-indies-wind/|Understanding Caribbean Island (West Indies) Wind]] | ||
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