Spanish West Indies

E66933

former colony historical region

The Spanish West Indies were Spain’s Caribbean and surrounding mainland colonies that served as a key hub of its early American empire, centered on lucrative sugar, silver, and trade routes.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Spanish Main	2
Hispanic Caribbean	1
Spanish Caribbean	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former colony ⓘ historical region ⓘ
capital	Havana, Cuba ⓘ surface form: Havana Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ⓘ surface form: Santo Domingo
colonizedBy	Spain ⓘ
country	Spanish Empire ⓘ
economyBasedOn	plantation agriculture ⓘ silver trade ⓘ slave labor ⓘ sugar production ⓘ
endTime	late 19th century ⓘ
governedBy	Council of the Indies ⓘ Spanish viceroys and governors ⓘ
hasPart	Cuba ⓘ Hispaniola ⓘ Mainland coastal territories around the Caribbean ⓘ Puerto Rico ⓘ Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ⓘ surface form: Santo Domingo Spanish Florida ⓘ Trinidad ⓘ
historicalEra	Age of Exploration ⓘ surface form: Age of Discovery Early Modern period ⓘ surface form: Early modern period
influenced	Afro-Caribbean culture ⓘ Caribbean culture ⓘ
influencedBy	Spanish culture ⓘ Spanish law ⓘ
language	Spanish ⓘ
linkedTo	Spanish West Indies self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Spanish Main Spanish galleon trade ⓘ surface form: Spanish treasure fleets transatlantic slave trade ⓘ
locatedIn	Americas ⓘ Caribbean Sea ⓘ
lostTerritoryIn	Spanish–American War ⓘ
majorExport	coffee ⓘ hides ⓘ indigo ⓘ sugar ⓘ tobacco ⓘ
partOf	Spanish Empire ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ
significantEvent	Spanish colonization of the Caribbean ⓘ Spanish–American War ⓘ Wars of independence in Spanish America ⓘ
sovereignState	Spain ⓘ
startTime	after 1492 ⓘ late 15th century ⓘ
strategicImportance	control of Caribbean sea lanes ⓘ protection of silver routes from the Americas to Spain ⓘ
usedAs	colonial administrative region ⓘ naval base network ⓘ trade hub ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Laws of the Indies → appliesToTerritory → Spanish West Indies ⓘ

El Draque → associatedWithRegion → Spanish West Indies ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish Main

Negrismo → hasMainRegion → Spanish West Indies ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hispanic Caribbean

Habsburg Spain → hasPart → Spanish West Indies ⓘ

Juan de Prado Malleza Portocarrero y Luna → historicalRegion → Spanish West Indies ⓘ

Spanish West Indies → linkedTo → Spanish West Indies self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish Main

Captaincy General of Venezuela → partOf → Spanish West Indies ⓘ

New Kingdom of Granada → partOf → Spanish West Indies ⓘ

Upper Peru → partOf → Spanish West Indies ⓘ

Viceroyalty of Peru → partOf → Spanish West Indies ⓘ

Isla Nena → region → Spanish West Indies ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish Caribbean