Cayman rifts
Tectonic plates with continents in the background
The Kaiman Traben is a deep sea channel up to 7680 m deep and 965 km long in the Caribbean Sea , a western marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean (Atlantic).
geography
As part of the Caribbean , the Cayman Rift is located between the Cayman Islands in the north, southeastern Cuba in the northeast, Haiti in the east, Jamaica in the southeast, Honduras and the Gulf of Honduras in the southwest and the Yucatan Basin in the west and northwest. There it lies between about 17 and 20 ° north latitude and 75 and 87 ° west longitude .
geology
The Cayman Trench forms the northwestern part of the deeply incised seam between the North American Plate in the northwest and the Caribbean Plate in the southeast.