What are regions of latin America?

Question

I have a project "design a travel poster focusin on one region of latin america"... I think the regions include: The West Indies, Central America, South America and Mexico. The West Indies keeps redirecting me back to the Caribbeans. Are they the same thing?

Answer 1

Wikipèdia says "The West Indies may be * the Caribbean". So, yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies
But I wouldn't know abot considering them for your project because Latin America is a zone where Spanish is spoken, and not in all the Caribbean is this language spoken. OTOH; there are different definitions for Latin America.

Try here for your project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America

Perhaps they didn't mean to say that Latin America was divided into "regions" but that you chose a "region" or a "zone".

Answer 2

You are correct, Latin America is considered what you described. Yes, the West Indies and the Caribbean are much the same location.

Answer 3

Well, South America can also be divided into the Andean nations (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Bolivia) and the South Cone (Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile again).

Answer 4

http://www.historyteacher.net/GlobalStudies/LatinAmerica_Geography.htm

Try this here for a change.