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Caribbean Terrane
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous (emplaced) ~100–65 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
The Caribbean Terrane is enclosed by the Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault (orange), Romeral Fault System (violet) and plate boundaries with Coiba (red) and Malpelo Plates (purple)
Type	Terrane
Unit of	North Andes Plate
Sub-units	Subunits
Overlies	Arquía, Tahamí & Quebradagrande Terranes
Lithology
Primary	Complexes, basins
Other	Volcanoes
Location
Location	Antioquia, Atlántico, Caldas, Cauca, Chocó, Córdoba, Nariño, Quindío, Risaralda, Sucre, Valle del Cauca departments
Coordinates	6°28′00″N 77°00′00″W / 6.46667°N 77.00000°W / 6.46667; -77.00000
Region	Caribbean, Pacific/Chocó
Country	Colombia
Extent	Central, Western, Darién, Baudó, Montes de María
Type section
Named for	Caribbean
Caribbean Terrane (Colombia) Show map of Colombia Caribbean Terrane (Chocó Department) Show map of Chocó Department

The Caribbean Terrane (Spanish: Terreno del Caribe, TC) is a geological province (terrane) of Colombia. The terrane, dating to the Late Cretaceous, is situated on the North Andes Plate and borders the La Guajira, Chibcha and underlying Tahamí Terrane along the regional Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault.^[1] The terrane overlies the Tahamí, Arquía and Quebradagrande Terranes along the Romeral Fault System.^[2][3]

A study performed by Mora Bohórquez et al. in 2017 showed no basement variation between the Chibcha Terrane San Lucas basement underlying the Lower Magdalena Valley (VIM) and the SNSM basement to the east of the Santa Marta Fault. The authors redefined the contacts between the different terranes, using the names Calima Terrane for the coastal portion of the Caribbean Terrane (San Jacinto and Sinú fold belts) and Tahamí-Panzenú Terrane for the Tahamí Terrane.^[4]

The terrane was subdivided by Fuck et al. (2008) into:^[5][6]

Oceanic crust

• Calima Terrane (Calima, emplaced in Late Cretaceous)
• Cuna Terrane (Cuna, emplaced in Miocene)
• Gorgona Terrane (Gorgona, Miocene)

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  North Andes Plate
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  Seismic activity map
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  Geologic map (Codazzi, 1890)
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  Paleogeography of the Late Cretaceous (Blakey)

• List of earthquakes in Colombia
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colombia
• List of mining areas in Colombia
• Geology of the Eastern Hills of Bogotá
• Cesar-Ranchería Basin
• Cocinetas Basin
• Middle Magdalena Valley (VMM)

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