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Beata Island
Beata Island ((スペイン語:Isla Beata)) is a small island on the Caribbean Sea, located southwest from Cape Beata. Some SW of it lies the smaller Alto Velo Island. It is part of the Dominican Republic and is roughly triangle-shaped and fairly flat, with an approximate area of .
==History==
The island, discovered by Europeans in 1494 during Columbus' second voyage, was apparently frequently inhabited by Taíno natives, a testament of which are several very large piles of conch (''Strombus gigas''), on which they regularly fed. Archaeologists have found remains of a Taíno settlement that may have been inhabited by as many as 800 inhabitants.
During the colonial era, Spaniards kept cattle on the island (which roamed ferally up into the late 1800s) to supply their ships on way to the mainland of the continent. Its strategic position and provisions made Beata the scene of several skirmishes in which Spanish vessels were attacked by pirates and corsairs based and sailing from Tortuga Island.
In the 1870s a government concession allowed some private entrepreneurs to mine salt pans on the Northern coast, from which salt was extracted up to the 1960s.
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