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Download or read book The Old Providence and Santa Catalina Islands written by June Marie Mow and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Providence and Santa Catalina are the smallest islands of Colombia's only oceanic and West Indies Department, the Archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence, and Santa Catalina. These islands with a total area of 18 square kilometers and a population of 5,000 are among the least environmentally and culturally degraded in the Caribbean. The economic base is fruit farming, cattle and small animal raising, fishing, and tourism. The windward barrier reef is one of the most significant reefs in the western hemisphere and might be the second largest barrier reef in the Caribbean is 32 km long and covers an overall area of 255 square kilometres (Geister and Díaz, 1997). The entire Archipelago was declared the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve in November 2000 and incorporated into the unesco Man and the Biosphere Program and is a Marine Protected Área since early 2004. During the visioning process, the local people chose ecotourism as their central platform of tourism development and as an essential component for the implementation of the “Sefalower” Biosphere Reserve. Their aim: To maintain control of their present and future and leaders of their own development process.