Santa Catalina Island is a small Colombian island in the
Caribbean Sea
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. It belongs to the
San Andrés y Providencia Department of Colombia and is the northernmost island in
South America
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. The island has two bays: Old John Bay and Eliza Bay.
It is connected by a footbridge to its larger sister
Providencia Island
Isla de Providencia, historically Old Providence, and generally known as Providencia or Providence, is a mountainous Caribbean island that is part of the Colombian department of Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, or T ...
, to the south.

It has a dry climate with two annual rain periods.
References
Islands of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
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