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Antigua: 21N, 62W. Colonized in the 1640s, this island is a

small, pleasant backwater with a classic plantation economy. In
the 18th Century it will become one of the two great naval bases
for the British Royal Navy in the Caribbean.

Barbados: 18N, 59W. The first major English colony in the

Caribbean (in the 1620s), Barbados is the economic capital of
the Caribbee Islands (Lesser Antilles) throughout the middle and
later parts of the 17th Century. Caribbean traders will find
European goods numerous and the selling of tobacco and sugar
quite good.

Belize:  21N, 88W. This small but hardy settlement of log-

wood cutters appears in the 1680s in a region conceded to be
Spanish, but as yet uncolonized. Its stubborn presence will
cause diplomatic problems for decades to come.

Bermuda: 30N, 65W. Settled in the 1640s, Bermuda built its

early economy on shipwrecks, thanks to the many treacherous
reefs that surround the tiny island.

Borburata: 16N, 67W. This modest city on the Spanish Main is

noteworthy only in the late 16th Century. Thereafter it is sublimated
in the growing power and importance of Caracas.

Campeche: 23N, 90W. A well-established “old” Spanish city

with aristocratic tastes, Campeche is an important port serving
the inland provinces of southern New Spain and Yucatan.
European goods fetch good prices here.

Caracas: 16N, 66W. This city rises to prominence at the end of

the 16th Century. It is the main port for many inland farms and

plantations, and home of many
important Spanish families, who
have expensive tastes in
European goods.

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All founding dates are approximate. 

Cartagena: 16N, 75W. This is the largest port city of the

Spanish Main, and after the 1590s a supposedly impregnable
fortress. Here the Treasure Fleet winters before its return voyage
via Havana and the Florida Channel. Cartagena has a powerful
garrison of troops and a thriving economy with little need for
illegal trade and smuggling.

Coro: 17N, 70W. This small city on the east side of the Gulf of

Venezuela thrives in the 16th Century, but after the 1600s it is
overshadowed by the new ports to the east. During it brief hey-
day Coro is a good sources of hides and tobacco.

Cumana: 16N, 64W. The main port city of New Andalusia, it

forms the eastern anchor of the Spanish Main, the last major
harbor and fortress. It is a good market for European goods. This
does not prevent it from indulging in smuggling and other nefar-
ious pursuits from time to time.

Curacao: 17N, 69W. First used in the 1620s, this island

becomes a great free port under Dutch control. Spanish produce
smuggled from everywhere along the Main is bought here by
Dutch merchants, who happily exchange them for European
products that can be profitably smuggled to the Spanish.

Eleuthera: 26N, 76W. At first just an anchorage for priva-

teers, Eleuthera becomes an English colony eventually. In the
17th Century it really never grows, remaining a backwater
haven for pirates, privateers, and the other riffraff who hide
among the Bahamas.

Florida Channel: 26N, 80W. The powerful Gulf Stream current

has cut this channel along the southeast coast of Florida, forming a
safe path past the Bahama shoals. Each year in the spring or summer
the Spanish Treasure Fleet passes up this channel from Havana,
bound for the North Atlantic Westerlies and the trip home.

Florida Keys: 26N, 81W. Among this chain of tiny islands and

reefs are transitory anchorages for privateers of varying nationali-
ties. No permanent colonies are founded here —  it is too close
to powerful Spanish Havana.