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The indigenous Carib people inhabited Grenada when Christopher COLUMBUS landed on the island in 1498,...

El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the Central American Federation in...

The Taino -- indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola prior to the arrival of Europeans -- divided...

Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans, due chiefly...

The original Arawak Indian settlers who arrived on Curaçao from South America in about A.D....

The native Amerindian population of Cuba began to decline after the arrival of Christopher COLUMBUS...

Although explored by the Spanish early in the 16th century, initial attempts at colonizing Costa...

The British colonized the Cayman Islands during the 18th and 19th centuries, and Jamaica --...

First inhabited by Arawak and later by Carib Indians, the Virgin Islands were settled by...

Belize was the site of several Mayan city states until their decline at the end...

Barbados was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. Enslaved Africans worked the...