Description: Providenciales. Providenciales, more commonly known as "Provo",
is a large, high island that covers an area of 98 square kilometers. It is the most developed island in Turks and Caicos and has a population of over 6,000 including many Haitians, Dominicans, French, Canadians, Germans and Americans.
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Providenciales. The Caicos Bank includes the islands of Providenciales, North, Middle, East, West and South Caicos, plus a number of smaller islands and cays. Providenciales and West Caicos border the western margin of the bank (22N, 72W). Date Taken: 9/17/94 NASA Photo ID: STS064-117-066 |
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Principle Inland Blue Holes
Blue Hills Cave The Hole |
Anchialine Fauna of Providenciales
| Subphylum Crustacea (crustaceans) |
| Subclass Ostracoda (ostracods) |
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| Order Nebaliacea (nebalianceans) |
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| Subclass Copepoda (copepods) |
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| Order Decapoda (decapods) |
| Infraoder Caridea (shrimp) |
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| Order Amphipoda (amphipods) |
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| Order Mysidacea (mysids, opossum shrimp) |
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| Class Remipedia (remipedes) |
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