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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001839882-23-029777
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	497AD
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20231106
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20231106

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			HERZFELD CARIBBEAN BASIN FUND INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000880406
		IRS NUMBER:				650396889
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MD
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0630

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		497AD
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-274174
		FILM NUMBER:		231378920

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		119 WASHINGTON AVENUE, SUITE 504
		CITY:			MIAMI BEACH
		STATE:			FL
		ZIP:			33139
		BUSINESS PHONE:		305-777-1660

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		119 WASHINGTON AVENUE, SUITE 504
		CITY:			MIAMI BEACH
		STATE:			FL
		ZIP:			33139

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	FIRST CUBA FUND INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920929
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<p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: right"><b>Filed pursuant to Rule 497(a)</b></p>

<p style="margin: 0; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: right"><b>File No. 333-274174</b></p>

<p style="margin: 0; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: right"><b>Rule 482 AD</b></p>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: center; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white"><B>The
Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Inc. </B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: center; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white"><B>Announces
Estimated Subscription Price for Rights Offering</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">MIAMI
BEACH, FL -- (November 3, 2023) -- The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund, Inc. (NASDAQ:&nbsp;CUBA) (the &#8220;Fund&#8221;) announced a $2.57
estimated subscription price for its Non-Transferable Rights Offering (&#8220;Rights Offering&#8221;). &nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">Subscription
Certificates evidencing the Rights and a copy of the prospectus for the Rights Offering (the &#8220;Prospectus&#8221;) will be mailed
to stockholders of record on November 3, 2023 (&#8220;Record Date&#8221;) beginning on or about November 8, 2023.&nbsp;The Rights Offering
will be effected only through the Prospectus.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">Rights
holders may purchase one share of the Fund&#8217;s common stock for every one Right held.&nbsp;Rights may be exercised at any time during
the subscription period.&nbsp;The subscription period will begin on November 8, 2023, and will end at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on November
29, 2023 (the &#8220;Expiration Date&#8221;), unless the Rights Offering is extended.&nbsp;The subscription price per share will be set
at 92% of the average volume-weighted closing sale price at which the common stock trades on the NASDAQ Capital Market on the Expiration
Date (as defined below) and the four preceding trading days.&nbsp;In addition, Record Date stockholders who fully exercise their rights
will be entitled to subscribe for additional shares of common stock (&#8220;Over-Subscription Shares&#8221;).&nbsp;The Over-Subscription
Shares will be allocated pro rata to stockholders who over-subscribe based on the number of Rights originally issued to them.&nbsp;If
enough shares are available, all over-subscription requests will be honored in full. If requests for shares exceed the shares available,
the Fund may determine after the expiration of the Rights Offering, at the discretion of the Fund, to issue additional shares of common
stock by up to 200% of the shares available pursuant to the Rights Offering in order to cover such over-subscription requests. Regardless
of whether the Fund issues such additional shares, to the extent shares are not available to honor all requests, the available shares
will be allocated pro rata among those Record Date stockholders who over-subscribe based on the number of Rights originally issued to
them by the Fund.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">The
Fund has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which was declared effective on October 27,
2023. The definitive terms of the offer are contained in the Fund&#8217;s Prospectus for the offer.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0"><B>Important Dates</B>:</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 68%"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">November 3, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding-left: 33px"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Subscription Period Opens:</FONT></TD>
    <TD><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">November 8, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding-left: 33px"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Mailing Date (on or about):</FONT></TD>
    <TD><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">November 8, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding-left: 33px"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">Expiration Date:</FONT></TD>
    <TD><FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">November 29, 2023</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">For
additional information on the Fund or the Rights Offering, or to obtain a Prospectus, please contact the Fund at 800-TJH-FUND or visit
us on the web at&nbsp;<U>www.herzfeld.com/cuba</U>.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">The
Fund is a non-diversified, closed-end fund managed by HERZFELD/CUBA, a division of Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, Inc. (based in Miami Beach).&nbsp;The
Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.&nbsp;To achieve its objective the Fund invests in issuers that are likely, in the Advisor&#8217;s
view, to benefit from economic, political, structural and technological developments in countries in the Caribbean Basin, which the Fund
considers to consist of Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Aruba, Haiti, the former Netherlands
Antilles, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and the
United States (&#8220;Caribbean Basin Countries&#8221;).</P>


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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">Investments
in the Fund involve risks.&nbsp;Investing in companies of Caribbean Basin Countries may present certain unique risks not associated with
domestic investments, such as currency fluctuation, political and economic changes and market risks.&nbsp;These factors may result in
greater share price volatility.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">Shares
of closed-end funds frequently trade at a discount to their net asset value (NAV).&nbsp;The price of the Fund&#8217;s shares is determined
by a number of factors, several of which are beyond the control of the Fund.&nbsp;Therefore, the Fund cannot predict whether its shares
will trade at, below or above NAV.&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">Before
investing in the Fund, investors should carefully consider the investment objective, risks, and charges and expenses of the Fund.&nbsp;This
information can be found in the Fund&#8217;s prospectus on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.&nbsp;An investor should carefully
read the Fund&#8217;s prospectus before investing.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">Participating
stockholders will be required to initially pay for the shares subscribed for in the Rights Offering as well as any additional shares subscribed
for as part of the over-subscription privilege at the estimated subscription price.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">The
Fund&#8217;s investment adviser is HERZFELD/CUBA, a division of Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, Inc. and the Fund&#8217;s shares trade on
the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol &#8220;CUBA.&#8221;&nbsp;Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, Inc. specializes in the field of closed-end
funds.&nbsp;Information about the investment adviser and the Fund can be found at&nbsp;<U>www.herzfeld.com</U>.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white"><B>This
announcement is not an offer to sell these securities and the Fund is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where
the offer or sale is not permitted.&nbsp;The Rights Offering will be made only by means of a prospectus and only after the registration
statement on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) has been declared effective by the Commission.&nbsp;The
final terms of the Rights Offering may be different from those discussed above.</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">NASDAQ Capital Market: CUBA<BR>
CUSIP: 42804T106</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white">Contact Information:</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: white"><B>For further information
contact:<BR>
</B>Tom Morgan<BR>
305.777.1660<BR>
<BR>
Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, Inc.<BR>
119 Washington Avenue, Suite 504<BR>
Miami Beach, FL 33139<BR>
<U>www.herzfeld.com</U></P>

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