Cubagua Island or Isla de Cubagua (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈisla ðe kuˈβaɣwa]) is the smallest and least populated of the three islands constituting the...
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1542. He and his party sailed along the Atlantic coast until reaching Cubagua Island, near the coast of Venezuela. Orellana founded the city of Guayaquil...
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Caribbean (redirect from Caribbean island)
Venezuela Blanquilla Island Coche Island Cubagua Island Isla Aves Islas Los Frailes Isla Margarita La Orchila La Sola Island La Tortuga Island Las Aves archipelago...
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Leeward Antilles (section Islands)
Archipelago Los Testigos Islands Patos Island State of Nueva Esparta (Venezuela) Coche Island Cubagua Island Margarita Island State of Falcón (Venezuela)...
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Margarita and the mainland. The other two islands are Isla Margarita, the main island of the state, and Cubagua, the smallest. Coche is coterminous with...
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Margarita Island, Coche, and the largely uninhabited Cubagua. The state is located off the northeast Caribbean coast of Venezuela. The main island of Margarita...
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Ortal and Herrera. The governor of the adjacent island of Trinidad and the settlers on the island of Cubagua claimed the mainland side in front of their possessions...
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Los Monjes Archipiélago Los Roques Isla de Aves Isla de Coche Isla de Cubagua Isla de Patos Isla de Toas Isla de Zapara Isla La Orchila Isla La Sola...
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63°48'W and 64°23'W, the island, along with the islands of Coche and Cubagua, comprises the state of Nueva Esparta. The island is split into two peninsulas...
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Gòmez. The state of Zamora was renamed to Barinas and Cubagua Island (Spanish: Isla de Cubagua) was incorporated into Nueva Esparta. After the 1864 Constitution...
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Archipelago Patos Island La Sola Island Los Testigos Islands La Tortuga Island Miranda Nueva Esparta Coche Island Cubagua Island Margarita Island Sucre Vargas...
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is bounded on the east by Margarita Island, Cubagua Island, and the Araya Peninsula; on the north by Tortuga Island and the Tortuga Banks; on the west...
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Tortuga Island, Venezuela Gran Roque Island, Los Roques National Park El Amor Beach, Coche Island El Agua Beach, Margarita Island Cubagua Island, Nueva...
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77723; -63.9312 (Coche Island) Isla de Cubagua, 10°48′42″N 64°11′35″W / 10.81173°N 64.19314°W / 10.81173; -64.19314 (Isla Cubagua) Isla de Patos, 10°38′22″N...
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city in Cubagua Island. After a huge hurricane hit this island in 1542, the image was moved to El Valle del Espíritu Santo in Margarita Island whereby...
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being harassed by Spaniards operating slave raids from the nearby Island of Cubagua. To make the proposal palatable to the king, Las Casas had to incorporate...
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Tubores Municipality (category Margarita Island)
includes part of Nueva Esparta's main island, Isla Margarita, as well as the whole of the sparsely inhabited island of Cubagua to the south. The capital is Punta...
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America before 1545 as a cavalry soldier, and acquired some property on Cubagua island in the Pearl Coast. Abandoning the military profession, he became a...
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in beds of Pinctada imbricata and Arca zebra (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in Cubagua Island, Venezuela: Effect of bed density". Scientia Marina. 76: 705–712. doi:10...
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the Venezuelan blenny, is a species of chaenopsid blenny found around Cubagua Island, Venezuela, in the western Atlantic ocean. It can reach a maximum length...
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Lesser Antilles (redirect from Lesser Antillean islands)
Hermanos Archipelago La Orchila Island Las Aves Archipelago Aves Island Nueva Esparta (Venezuela) Margarita Island Coche Cubagua Barbados† Trinidad and Tobago†...
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Antilles (redirect from Antillean islands)
Blanquilla Island Los Hermanos Archipelago Orchila Island Las Aves Archipelago Nueva Esparta State (Venezuela) Margarita Island Coche Cubagua Anguilla (United...
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This is a list of islands in the Caribbean by area. (The Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Barbados are not in the Caribbean Sea, but rather in...
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Cadena and other Spanish authors who set the action of their poems on Cubagua island, like Juan de Castellanos (author of the Elegías de varones ilustres...
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10.8407139°N 64.1592222°W / 10.8407139; -64.1592222), northeast of Cubagua Island, Venezuela. Crescini R, De Sisto M. & Villalba W. (2013). A new species...
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immigration in Venezuela began in 1500 with the Spanish colonization of Cubagua island to exploit abundant pearl oysters, enslaving the indigenous people and...
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as 1502, rancherías were established on Cubagua, occupied for 3–4 months each year during trading. The island was of particular interest because of its...
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Antonio Díaz Municipality, Nueva Esparta (category Margarita Island)
situated in the valley of the same name. In 1525, ancient settlers from Cubagua Island, searching for fresh water, arrived in the Valley of San Juan. Attracted...
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Hernández de Serpa, went in 1524 to the small island of Cubagua, off the coast of present-day Venezuela. The island was thriving from the pearl industry. The...
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pearls and exchanged them for clothing with their bosses. On Cubagua, another Venezuelan island, the Spaniards used natives as slave labor in their initial...
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