Tortuga Island Diamond Rattlesnake Crotalus Tortugensis

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As a reward, the island was conceded to him in full possession. In 1664, du Rausset sold his rights to the French West India Company. From its former name Aux Palmistes, La Tortue was founded in 1925 with the implantation of Catholicism in the region. At that time, this municipality did not have the adequate means to allow the Tortugese to survive. The lack of economic and financial infrastructures means that this municipality remains very lightly endowed. The first Europeans to land on Tortuga were the Spanish in 1492 during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus into the New World.

If they don't have what you're looking for, you can ask them to get it for you from the mainland. Most of the time you will end up paying in advance and then waiting a few hours till the next boat leaves and comes back. As for Leisure, Tortue has several theaters located in different places, and sports such as football , volleyball, tennis, swimming and basketball, which are practiced on land that is in poor condition. The gaguères numbering eight complete the main places of entertainment in the municipality of Tortuga.

Tortuga was originally settled by a few Spanish colonists. In 1625, French and English settlers arrived on the island of Tortuga after initially planning to settle on the island of Hispaniola. The French and English settlers were attacked in 1629 by the Spanish commanded by Don Fabrique de Toledo. The Spanish were successful and fortified the island, expelling the French and English men. As most of the Spanish army left for Hispaniola to root out French colonists there, the French returned to take the fort and expanded on the Spanish-built fortifications.

They lived on the southern part of the island where there are flat lands and tried to grow some crops like tobacco. They sold the smoked meat and Roches Eustaches leather to those ships that came to the island. The inhabited area was divided into four parts; the first of these was called “Low Land” or “Low Country.” This region contained the island’s port and was therefore considered the most important. The town was called Cayona, and the richest planters of the island lived there. The second region was called the “Middle Plantation”; the farmers of this region were unfamiliar with the soil and it was only used to grow tobacco. The third part was named “La Ringot,” and was positioned on the western portion of the island.

ÃŽle de la Tortue is coterminous with the commune of Tortuga, which is split into two communal sections; Pointe des Oiseax and Mare Rouge. "Method of Securing the Ports and Populations of All the Coasts of the Indies", from 1694, discusses Tortuga's history with piracy. Tortuga has been portrayed in many works depicting piracy in the Caribbean in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Tortuga Island, just north of the western tip of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti), was an important strategic location in particular for the activities of seventeenth-century French buccaneers. The island had been a rendezvous for rovers of all nations since the time of Francis Drake, and from 1630 on, as tobacco production gave way to sugar growing, it became the headquarters for French freebooting. In December 1802, the native General, Capois, commandant of Port-de-Paix, conceived the project of burning the French establishments at La Tortue.