Cape Romano is a
cape
A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck.
History
Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. Th ...
on the
Gulf Coast
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of
Florida
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, United States, below
Naples
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, just beyond the southwestern tip of
Marco Island
Marco may refer to:
People
* Marco (given name), people with the given name Marco
* Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor
* Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin
* Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish ...
and northwest of the
Ten Thousand Islands
The Ten Thousand Islands are a chain of islands and mangrove islets off the coast of southwest Florida, between Cape Romano (at the south end of Marco Island) and the mouth of the Lostmans River. Some of the islands are high spots on a submerg ...
in
Collier County
Collier County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 375,752; an increase of 16.9% since the 2010 United States Census. Its county seat is East Naples, where the county offices were moved from Ev ...
.
Calusa Indians founded the settlement and called it Manataca.
Juan Ponce de León
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briefly stopped at Manataca on his first trip from
Puerto Rico
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to Florida, but the Indians tried to fight him off.
There are two competing theories about why the island is called Cape Romano. One theory that Cape Romano got its name from the survivors of a Romanian shipwreck that colonized the island in 1834. Another undocumented theory is Cape Romano was named after it by British surveyor Bernard Roman who sailed by it in 1775.
Cape Romano is also the location of the country's first Romanian Orthodox Church. Completed in 1837, the ruins can still be found on the island just off the beach. It was destroyed in 1897 by a fire after multiple hurricanes forced the inhabitants from the Island.
Cape Romano is where
Hurricane Irma
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made its second U.S. landfall in September 2017 and
Hurricane Wilma
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made its first U.S. landfall in October 2005. Hurricane Wilma made landfall near Cape Romano in Collier County, Florida, bringing its approximately 10-foot storm surge into the Ten Thousand Islands region of Collier County. In 2008,
Tropical Storm Fay came ashore near the cape, as had the
1910 Cuba hurricane.
Hammerhead sharks are a known breeding ground along the sandy flats of Cape Romano.
See also
*
Cape Romano Dome House
The Cape Romano Dome House was an abandoned house consisting of six dome-shaped modules on stilts, located approximately offshore from Cape Romano Island, south of Marco Island, in the Ten Thousand Islands of Collier County, Florida. Cape Roma ...
*
Cape Romano Stilt Houses
A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck.
History
Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. Th ...
References
Romano
Romano may refer to:
Food
* Pecorino Romano, a hard, salty Italian cheese
* Romano cheese, an American English and Canadian English term for a class of cheeses
Places Italy Municipalities in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Latium
* Arcinazzo Ro ...
Landforms of Collier County, Florida
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