Huevos

Huevos is a belonging to Trinidad and Tobago and the island belongs to the Bocas Islands. Administratively, the island is one of the region Huevos Diego Martin. The island is privately owned.

Geography

The Bocas Islands are Chaguaramas upstream in the northwest of the island of Trinidad. The island chain (consisting of Chacachacare, Huevos and Monos ) is between Venezuela and Trinidad in the Straits Dragon 's Mouth Strait ( Bocas del Dragón ), which forms the northern boundary of the Gulf of Paria to the Caribbean sea. Between the islands there are smaller Straits. From the west neighboring island Chacachacare Huevos is separated by the nearly 1300 meters wide Boca de Navios. Between Huevos and the eastern Monos Boca de Huevos is a width of about 1000 meters.

History

"Discovered " in the modern sense was the island in August 1498 by Christopher Columbus during his third voyage of discovery. He gave her the right form the name " El Delfin". At that time there were on the island still a source of fresh water, which made them attractive to sailors. The present name of the island ( Spanish for "egg "), allegedly goes back to the hawksbill turtle, which lay their eggs earlier in large numbers on the beach of the Bay Tortue. On August 10, 1800, the British HMS Dromedary ran with 500 passengers in the Parasol Rocks, a rock formation off the east coast Huevos ', aground. All persons on board were rescued. Since 1926 the island is owned by the merchant family Boos, former world monopoly for trade with Angostura Bitters. Between 1935 and 1965 stayed at the invitation of the family several members of the British royal family in the Boos'schen villa in the Tortue Bay.

Flora and Fauna

The flora of the island is dominated by the very low compared to the surrounding mainland precipitation level. Huevos is, inter alia, with Yellow Poui ( Tabebuia serratifolia ) overgrown, pigs plum ( Spondias mombin ) and white gum trees. Between the trees thrive Flamingo flowers. In a cave on the island lived until at least 1925, the rare fat Schwalm, now the population is but disappeared. On the whole island there Rotaugenvireos, Gelbkopfkarakaras, sugar birds and black vulture find. Numerous species of lizard native to Huevos, such as Gonatodes ceciliae. In the waters around Huevos be found, inter alia, Doctor fish ( striped surgeonfish, ocean surgeonfish and blue surgeonfish ) and angelfish ( Queen Angelfish, French Angelfish and Gray Angelfish ).