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    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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    Venezuela. It comprises Margarita Island, Coche, and the largely uninhabited Cubagua. The state is located off the northeast Caribbean coast of Venezuela. The...
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    the divers on Cubagua were marked by a hot iron on their face and arms with the letter "C," which some scholars argue stood for Cubagua. The pearl diving...
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    three islands, two of them small, low and arid (the present day Coche and Cubagua), The province of Trinidad was created in the 16th century by the Spanish...
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    forms the Gulf of Cariaco. It is bounded on the east by Margarita Island, Cubagua Island, and the Araya Peninsula; on the north by Tortuga Island and the...
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    Aves Archipelago Nueva Esparta State (Venezuela) Margarita Island Coche Cubagua Anguilla (United Kingdom) Antigua and Barbuda Antigua Barbuda Redonda British...
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    longitudes 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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    Contoy Isla Holbox Isla Mujeres  Venezuela Blanquilla Island Coche Island Cubagua Island Isla Aves Islas Los Frailes Isla Margarita La Orchila La Sola Island...
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    Testigos Islands Patos Island State of Nueva Esparta (Venezuela) Coche Island Cubagua Island Margarita Island State of Falcón (Venezuela) Paraguaná/Cora Island...
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    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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    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 61°51′50″W...
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    Nueva Cádiz is an archaeological site and former port town on Cubagua, off the coast of Venezuela. First established in 1500 as a seasonal settlement...
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    Manicuare that followed one another on the islands of the Margarita and Cubagua, off the eastern coast of Venezuela, and that seem to constitute a unique...
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    Isla Margarita, as well as the whole of the sparsely inhabited island of Cubagua to the south. The capital is Punta de Piedras on Isla Margarita. v t e...
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    conquest. In 1500 the city of Nueva Cádiz was founded on the island of Cubagua, Venezuela, followed by the founding of Santa Cruz by Alonso de Ojeda in...
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  • Cruz 26 10  Cuba 92 Big Pine Key 25.8 10  United States ( Florida) 93 Cubagua 24 -  Venezuela ( Nueva Esparta) 94 Ragged Island 23 9  Bahamas 95 South...
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    other two islands are Isla Margarita, the main island of the state, and Cubagua, the smallest. Coche is coterminous with the municipality of Villalba,...
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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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  • Testigos Islands La Tortuga Island  Miranda  Nueva Esparta Coche Island Cubagua Island Margarita Island  Sucre  Vargas  Zulia "Limits of Oceans and Seas...
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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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    arrived at Maracapana. Visiting the islands of Isla Margarita, Coche, and Cubagua, they exchanged objects of little value for a large number of pearls before...
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  • governor of the adjacent island of Trinidad and the settlers on the island of Cubagua claimed the mainland side in front of their possessions, but did not have...
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    three islands, two of them small, low and arid (the present Coche and Cubagua). On April 19, 1810, Margarita was one of the seven Venezuelan provinces...
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  • Melvin 23 Lake on the island of Ireland. Iejima 23 Island part of Japan. Cubagua 22.438 Island part of Venezuela. Peleliu 22.3 State of Palau. Honiara 22...
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    In 1501, she made a trading voyage to the Pearl Coast on the island of Cubagua, Venezuela, and no further log of her is found in historic archives. Niña...
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  • islands of the State of Nueva Esparta (Margarita Island, Coche Island, and Cubagua) are also situated in the Caribbean Sea just to the north of the Caribbean...
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    Earthquake In 1528, Cristóbal Guerra founded Nueva Cádiz on the island of Cubagua, the first Spanish settlement in Venezuela. Nueva Cádiz, with a population...
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    in the Western Hemisphere, they discovered that around the islands of Cubagua and Margarita, some 200 km north of the Venezuelan coast, was an extensive...
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    independent from Spain since 1898  Venezuela Isla de Margarita — Coche — Cubagua (form the state of Nueva Esparta) Los Monjes — Las Aves — Los Roques (Gran...
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