Spanish West Indies

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean. It comprises the eponymous main island as well as 4,195 islands, islets, and cays. Situated at the convergence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean, Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula, south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola, and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the C

Dominican Republic is a country on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared by two sovereign states. In the Antilles, the country is the second-largest nation by area after Cuba at 48,671 square kilometers (18,792 sq mi) and second-largest by population after Haiti with approximately 11.4 million people in 2024, of whom 3.6 million reside in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city.

Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. It is located between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, it consists of the eponymous main island and numerous smaller islands, including Vieques, Culebra, and Mona. With approximately 3.2 million people, it is divided into 78 municipalities, of which the most populous is the capital municipality of San Juan, followed by those within the San Juan metropolitan area. Spanish and English are the official languages of the government, though Spanish predominates.

capital of the Dominican Republic

Hispaniola is an island in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean, located between Cuba and Puerto Rico. It is the most populous island in the West Indies and the second-largest by land area, after Cuba. Covering an area of , it is divided into two separate sovereign countries: the Spanish–speaking Dominican Republic () to the east and the French and Haitian Creole–speaking Haiti () to the west. The only other divided island in the Caribbean is Saint Martin, which is shared between France () and the Netherlands (). At the time of the European arrival of Christopher Columbus, Hispaniola was home

1898 conflict between Spain and the United States

thumb|Moruga – [[Christopher Columbus monument. Columbus landed here on his third voyage in 1498. This is on the southern coast of the island of Trinidad]]

viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire (1535-1821)

The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and the Caribbean. The term "Arawak" has been applied at various times to different Indigenous groups, from the Lokono of South America to the Taíno (Island Arawaks), who lived in the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. All these groups spoke related Arawakan languages.

overseas expansion under the Crown of Castile

The Taíno were the Indigenous peoples in most of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas. Their culture has been continued today by their descendants and by Taíno revivalist communities. They were the first New World peoples encountered by non-Norse Europeans. Part of the Arawak group of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, the Taíno are also referred to as Island Arawaks or Antillean Arawaks.

carrack used by Christopher Columbus

thumb|200px|Francisco Hernández Girón was a Spanish encomendero in the [[Viceroyalty of Peru who protested the New Laws in 1553. These laws, passed in 1542 but repealed in 1545, gave certain rights to indigenous peoples and protected them against abuses. Drawing by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala.]]

Spanish navigator, explorer

caravel used by Christopher Columbus

Spanish conquistador (1490-1527)

Italian explorer (c. 1461 – 1515)

caravel used by Christopher Columbus, ship, 1491

convoy system used by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to 1790

History of the island of Jamaica

Spanish governor of the Indies and son of Christopher Columbus

aspect of history

historic site in the Dominican Republic

aspect of history

Spanish possession in the Caribbean between 1492-1898

Spanish explorer

piracy in the Caribbean region from the 1500s to the 1830s

Spanish colonial administrator (1746-1786)

History of Trinidad and Tobago from pre-Columbian period

administrative organ of the Spanish Empire

Spanish 1607–1898 possession in the Caribbean

fort on the northeast coast of Haiti

Spanish 1493-1821 possession in the Caribbean

regional Spanish dialect

1551 text by Bartolomé de Las Casas

aspect of history

Spanish 1509-1655 possession in the Caribbean

Spanish 1580-1898 possession in the Caribbean

The Repartimiento () (Spanish, "distribution, partition, or division") was a colonial labor system imposed upon the indigenous population of Spanish America and the Philippines. In concept, it was similar to other tribute-labor systems, such as the ''mit'a of the Inca Empire or the corvée of the Ancien Régime de France: Through the pueblos de indios, the Amerindians were drafted work for cycles of weeks, months, or years, on farms, in mines, in workshops (obrajes''), and public projects.

16th-century Spanish journey of exploration in North America

Governor-General of the Philippines, Governor of Puerto Rico, Governor of Cuba (1838–1914)

entire body of laws issued by the Spanish Crown for the American and the Philippine possessions of its empire

historical region

1861 Santo Domingo Rejoins Spain as an overseas province

Spanish explorer

first court of the Spanish crown in America

Lawsuits of heirs of Christopher Columbus against Spain

Royal Navy admiral

proposed state by Ramón Emeterio Betances

Roman Catholic bishop

1586 early battle in the Anglo-Spanish War

Spanish capture of St. Kitts in 1629

Cuban military personnel

Spanish military personnel

Medal Commemorating Naval Engagements in the West Indies