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Barlovento (Spanish for "windward") may
refer to:
Barlovento,
Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
Canary Islands Barlovento, Venezuela,
Miranda "
Barlovento", a song...
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Barlovento is a sub-region of
Miranda state, Venezuela.
During Spanish colonization of the Americas,
Barlovento was
developed as
estate owners founded...
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Barlovento (Spanish for windward) is a muni****lity in the
northern part of the
island of La Palma, one of the
Canary Islands, and a part of the province...
- "leeward". The
islands south and east of
Puerto Rico were
called Islas de
Barlovento,
meaning "windward islands". When the
British gained control of many of...
- The
Armada de
Barlovento (Windward Fleet) was a
military formation that
consisted of 50
ships created by the
Spanish Empire to
protect its
overseas American...
- In the 18th century,
immense shipments of
slaves were
transported to
Barlovento to aid the
burgeoning cacao industry,
indigo plantations in the Venezuelan...
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Maracaibo and Gibraltar,
Morgan was
trapped by the
Spanish Armada de
Barlovento led by Don
Alonso del
Campo y Espinosa.
Despite being outgunned Morgan's...
- Aves de
Barlovento, the
eastern group, with a
fringing reef of 8 km of
diameter and with
three cays in the
southwest Isla Aves de
Barlovento Isla Tesoro...
- mulata. The
children of
these they call cholos.
Cholo is a word from the
Barlovento Islas [later
known as
Windward Islands]; it
means "dog", not of the purebred...
- 1669 –
Henry Morgan's raid on Lake Maracaibo, the
Spanish Armada de
Barlovento is
defeated by an
English Privateer fleet led by
Captain Henry Morgan...
