The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.The oceanic trench, the deepest in the Atlantic, is associated with a complex transition between the Lesser Antilles subduction zone to the south and the major transform fault zone or plate boundary, which extends west between Cuba and Hispaniola through the Cayman …

The geography of Puerto Rico consists of an archipelago located between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic or Hispaniola, west of the Virgin Islands and north of Venezuela.The main island of Puerto Rico is the smallest and most eastern of the Greater Antilles.With an area of 3,515 square miles (9,104 km 2), it is the third largest …

Porto Rico (em castelhano e inglês: Puerto Rico), oficialmente Estado Livre Associado de Porto Rico (em castelhano: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico; em inglês: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) é um território não incorporado dos Estados Unidos localizado no nordeste do Mar do Caribe. É um arquipélago entre as Grandes Antilhas que inclui a ilha principal de Porto …

Mariana Trench, also called Marianas Trench, deep-sea trench in the floor of the western North Pacific Ocean, the deepest such trench known on Earth, located mostly east as well as south of the Mariana Islands. It is part of the western Pacific system of oceanic trenches coinciding with subduction zones—points where two adjacent tectonic plates collide, one being forced below …