Where do many Caribbean hurricanes form before moving westward?

Many North Atlantic hurricanes form in the eastern Atlantic Ocean near the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa.123

These storms typically begin as tropical depressions that develop from easterly waves—long troughs of low atmospheric pressure—within the tropical Atlantic. Once formed, these systems are steered westward by the trade winds, which carry them toward the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. While the exact path of any individual hurricane is unpredictable, this general westward movement is a characteristic pattern for tropical cyclones in the region.143