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Pertaining to Trinidad and Tobago, When Christopher Columbus saw three mountain peaks jutting out of the water, it remineded him of the entrance to the harbour in Madrid, Spain. He then named the island Trinidad. The Carib or Arawak word for Trinidad was Iere, meaning 'Land of the Humming Bird".

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