The Caribbean Sea (Spanish: Mar Caribe French: Mer des Caraïbes Dutch: Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Belize and Central America to the west and south west, to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba, to the east by the Lesser Antilles, and to the south by the north coast of South America. The Caribbean Sea has the second biggest barrier reef in the world, the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. It runs 1,000 km (620 mi) along the coasts of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.