Portal:Caribbean/Did you know
- ...that in 2004, Hurricane Jeanne (pictured) hit the Haitian coastal city of Gonaïves, where it affected about 80,000 of the city's 100,000 residents? And that official reports counted 3,006 people dead, with 2,826 of those in Gonaïves alone?
- ...that in 1900, the Cuban baseball league began admitting black players, thus some of the best players from the Northern American Negro Leagues relocated to Cuba to play in the integrated teams?
- ...that the major settlements on the island of Saba in the Netherlands Antilles are named Windwardside, The Bottom and Hell's Gate?
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- ... that 42 species of land gastropods lives in Dominica (endemic Amphicyclotulus amethystinus pictured)?