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Which Island grupo did the Spanish end up colonizing in the West Indies

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Although Spain claimed the entire Caribbean, they settled only the larger islands of Hispaniola (1493), Puerto Rico (1508), Jamaica (1509), Cuba (1511), and Trinidad (1530) and the small 'pearl islands' of Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuelan coast

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