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Great Abaco history overview
Great Abaco history strats with the nautical discoveries of Christopher Columbus in the 1490s and the decision of Spain to establish a landed empire in the Caribbean after 1502.
For Great Abaco history these events initiated a process that is still ongoing in the area.
Two generations more than sixty-six per cent of the people living in the newly-created Spanish towns as well as in Great Abaco were mixtures between the conquering Spanish and African invaders and the subject populations.
Mixing of any sort remains a notable Great Abaco history characteristic.
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Since 1930s and '40s Great Abaco history, travelers have regarded Great Abaco as one of the most alluring of the Caribbeans.
Its beaches and carnal red sunsets regularly appear in the sort of tourist brochures that promise paradise.
Tourists enjoy today a pice of Great Abaco history, experiencing the three “pilons” - reggae, reefers and rum.
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Great Abaco history - learn what once happend
The early inhabitants of the Abaco Islands were the Arawak Indians or Lucayans. The Arawak were peaceful by nature and arrived in the area after fleeing the fierce Caribs in South America. After the arrival of Columbus in the New World in 1492, Spanish treasure seekers followed and abducted 40,000 Arawak men and women to work as slaves in their prosperous settlements in Cuba and Hispaniola, almost completely depopulating the Bahamas by 1513. Upon the arrival of Ponce de Leon in the Bahamas in 1514, he found no trace of the Arawaks. Since the Islands of the Bahamas are not particularly fertile and have no minerals of considerable value, the area did not attract new inhabitants and remained unsettled for over 100 years after the disappearance of the Arawaks. During the 1500's the Bahamas was simply a stop on the long voyage for galleons loaded with gold and silver from Mexico and the rest of the Caribbean returning to Spain. Eventually the waters of the Bahamas, which is derived from the Spanish "bajamay" meaning shallow, claimed too many Spanish ships. After losing 17 treasure laden ships on the reefs in Abaco in 1595, the Spanish began to steer clear of the islands. However, wild horses that were brought by the Spanish still roam and can been seen on Great Abaco. France did attempt to establish "Lucayoneque", a colony on Great Abaco in 1625. The first French to arrive noted excellent anchorages, abundant fresh water and the wild pigs that still roam Abaco today. The reason for the disappearance of Lucayoneque and the early French settlers from Abaco is unrecorded.
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Great Abaco Vacations site
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