Tobago
Sign in to saveTobago, officially the Ward of Tobago, is an island and ward in Trinidad and Tobago. It is northeast of the larger island of Trinidad and about off Venezuela's northeastern coast. It is southeast of Grenada and southwest of Barbados.
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Tobago is a small island that forms part of the country Trinidad and Tobago, located in the Caribbean Sea northeast of Trinidad and relatively close to Venezuela's coast. As one of the two main islands making up the nation of Trinidad and Tobago, it is an important part of this Caribbean country's geography and political structure.
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- Etymology
- History
- Indigenous Tobago
- European colonisation
- British rule and independence
- Geography
- Climate
- Hurricanes
- Government
- Districts
- Demographics
- Ancestry and ethnicity
- Religion
- Economy
- Diving
- Golf
- In art
- ''Robinson Crusoe''
- ''Swiss Family Robinson''
- Ecology
- Environmental problems
- Tobagonians
- References
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Tobago, officially the Ward of Tobago, is an island and ward in Trinidad and Tobago. It is northeast of the larger island of Trinidad and about off Venezuela's northeastern coast. It is southeast of Grenada and southwest of Barbados.
== Etymology == Christopher Columbus named Tobago Belaforme "because from a distance it seemed beautiful". The Spanish friar Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa wrote that the Kalina (mainland Caribs) called the island Urupina because of its resemblance to a big snail, while the Kalinago (Island Caribs) called it Aloubaéra, supposedly because it resembled the alloüebéra, a giant snake that supposedly lived in a cave on the island of Dominica. The earliest known record of the use of the name Tabaco to refer to the island is a Spanish royal order issued in 1511. That name was inspired by the resemblance of the island's shape to the fat cigars smoked by the Taíno inhabitants of the Greater Antilles.