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Afro–Turks and Caicos Islanders or Black Turks and Caicos Islanders are Turks and Caicos Islanders who are of African descent. [2] As of 2013, people of African descent are the majority ethnic group in the Turks and Caicos Islands accounting for around 87.6% of the territory's population. [1]
The Lucayan Archipelago includes The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, a chain of barrier reefs and low islands atop the Bahama Platform. The Bahama Platform is a carbonate block formed of marine sediments and fixed to the North American Plate. [ 15 ]
The Lucayan people (/ l uː ˈ k aɪ ən / loo-KY-ən) were the original residents of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands before the European colonisation of the Americas. . They were a branch of the Taínos who inhabited most of the Caribbean islands at the ti
The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; [7] / ˈ t ɜːr k s / and / ˈ k eɪ k ə s,-k oʊ s,-k ɒ s /) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies. [8]
Turks and Caicos Islands people by descent (7 C) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in the Turks and Caicos Islands" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The first Turks and Caicos Islander immigrants began arriving in Puerto Plata after the Dominican War of Restoration, long before the modern sugar industry was established. There were carpenters, blacksmiths and schoolteachers who emigrated due to the economic crisis in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. Many also came as stevedores on the Clyde ...
My family recently visited Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, home of Potcake Place K9 Rescue. A potcake is a mixed-breed street dog in the Caribbean, and the rescue lets volunteers walk them. My ...
Ethnic groups in the Turks and Caicos Islands (1 C, 2 P) Expatriates in the Turks and Caicos Islands (5 C) I. Immigrants to the Turks and Caicos Islands (4 C, 4 P)