hispaniola

Originally he was buried in Hispaniola where today is the city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

To the west of the island of Hispaniola is Haiti, only 3% of which now has forest coverage.

Thats ~700 years after the area of Spain was named Spain (Latin Hispaniola in the Roman empire, iirc).

To be pedantic, if he was from Spain, he would be from Hispania [1] not Hispaniola [2].

One of the most disturbing things for me is to look at Hispaniola on Google Maps.

Columbus stumbled over Hispaniola on what he thought was the way to someplace completely different.

I mean, the Hispaniola was there for decades...

I operate a microgrid facility in Hispaniola and have wonderfully cooperative users backed by a separately powered communications and control system.

I manage a microgrid on Hispaniola that serves a farm and a small community.

The Spanish eliminated the natives in Hispaniola and Latin America.

Somewhere in the mid hundreds-of-thousands to a million Taino, depending on which ends of the estimate make sense to you, lived on Hispaniola when the Spanish showed up.

The unification of la Hispaniola under a new regime untied to french colonialism could be a strong foundation for political and economical improvements (if made in respect of both cultures).

Three thousand people, that's it!" Columbus's second voyage kidnapped 500 Taino from Hispaniola alone and 300 of them died on the way back to Europe, and that was just the start of things.

Ok so I guess he did “accomplish” something, I stand corrected.: He “discovered” the place that was not called Hispaniola by any of the people that called it home.

Even if I steelman this attempt at an argument to its fullest, "exaggerated" doesn't mean "didn't happen"--if you go actually read the article that Wikipedia page cites, von Vacano does not claim that it's false --and we have other contemporary accounts of the Spanish acts of genocide on Hispaniola alone.

"Following the arrival of Europeans, La Hispaniola's indigenous Taino population suffered greatly to near extinction, in possibly the worst case of depopulation in the Americas." I don't think that just because it's different people now on both sides makes it possible to use such actions to argue from a moral high ground, the power difference and who oppressed whom remained in place even though the peoples changed.

No, I just wanted to make sure you weren't conflating what happens to species with what happened with Columbus and Hispaniola.

Hispaniola is the most excellent way to remove environmental factors explanations.

We run a 100KW microgrid on Hispaniola, and most of our panels are oriented to maximise winter afternoon sun, or just pointed randomly at the sky.