Envision cramming over 1,200 cheerful souls onto an artificial speck smaller than two soccer fields, with no cars, no crime, no cemeteries (bodies shipped out!), and houses stacked like Lego bricks because horizontal expansion is a pipe dream—welcome to Santa Cruz del Islote, the undisputed champ of “cozy” living in the Caribbean. Fishermen built this coral-topped party pad centuries ago for mosquito-free naps, and now it’s a vibrant, poverty-tinged paradise where kids outnumber adults, water arrives by boat, and tourists pay to gawk like it’s a human ant farm. Locals swear they’d never trade their sea-surrounded squeeze for anywhere else—proving that sometimes, the best neighborhood is the one where elbow room is optional.
Santa Cruz del Islote – The World’s Most Densely Populated Island
