Spanish Jamaicans are Jamaican citizens of
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
origin or descent.
Spanish Colonization of Santiago (Jamaica)
The Spaniards first settled on that part of the northern coast of Jamaica which is now known as the parish of
St. Ann. There they built a town called Sevilla Nueva, or New Seville. Afterwards they moved to the southern part of the island and built the town of
St. Jago de la Vega, which is still called
Spanish Town
Spanish Town ( jam, label=Jamaican Creole, Panish Tong) is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872. Th ...
. The island was given to the Columbus family as a personal estate in 1540, but they did nothing to develop it. The Spanish colony in Jamaica was never a very large or a very flourishing one.
Spanish cities and towns in Jamaica
The reminders of this historical period are the names of places all over the island, Such as
Ocho Rios
Ocho Rios (Spanish for "Eight Rivers") is a town in the parish of Saint Ann on the north coast of Jamaica, and is more widely referred to as ''Ochi'' by locals. Beginning as a sleepy fishing village, Ocho Rios has seen explosive growth in the ...
,
Rio Bueno,
Santa Cruz,
Rio Cobre
The Rio Cobre is a river of Jamaica. Its source is unclear, the headwaters being a writhing of unnamed, seasonally dry tributaries. The highest of these rise just above the contour. From here it flows to meet the Caribbean Sea in the north west c ...
,
Port Antonio
Port Antonio is the capital of the parish of Portland on the northeastern coast of Jamaica, about from Kingston. It had a population of 12,285 in 1982 and 13,246 in 1991. It is the island's third largest port, famous as a shipping point for b ...
and most importantly Spanish Town, formerly known as St. Jago de la Vega, the capital under the Spanish.
JAMAICAN HISTORY I
Notable people
* Frank Silvera
Frank Alvin Silvera (July 24, 1914 – June 11, 1970) was a Jamaican-born American character actor and theatrical director.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in Boston, Silvera dropped out of law school in 1934 after winning his first stage ...
, Jamaican American actor and director
* Gail Vaz-Oxlade
Gail Vaz-Oxlade (born June 18, 1959) is a Jamaican-Canadian financial writer and television personality who lives in Brighton, Ontario, Canada. Vaz-Oxlade hosts the Canadian television series ''Til Debt Do Us Part'', ''Princess'' and, most recent ...
, Jamaican-Canadian financial writer and television personality
* Ken Khouri
Kenneth Lloyd Khouri (1917 – 20 September 2003) was a pioneering Jamaican record producer and founder of Federal Records, the first recording studio in Jamaica, which was sold to Bob Marley's Tuff Gong record label in 1981. He is credited by reg ...
, Jamaican record producer
* Lady Colin Campbell
Georgia Arianna, Lady Colin Campbell (''née'' Ziadie, born 17 August 1949), also known as Lady C, is a British Jamaican author, socialite, and television personality who has published seven books about the British royal family. They include b ...
, Jamaican radio host, author and socialite
* Wilfred Adolphus Domingo, Journalist
See also
* Colony of Santiago (Jamaica)
Santiago was a Spanish territory of the Spanish West Indies and within the Viceroyalty of New Spain, in the Caribbean region. Its location is the present-day island and nation of Jamaica.
Pre-Columbian Jamaica
Around 650 AD, Jamaica was c ...
References
{{Spanish diaspora
Ethnic groups in Jamaica
European Jamaican
European diaspora in North America
Spanish Caribbean
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...
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