Abacoa

Abacoa is an early recorded name for Andros, the largest island of the Bahamas. Its low limestone land is divided by tidal channels, with extensive mangrove wetlands along the western side and shallow banks offshore. Lucayan communities lived on the island before Spanish slave raids devastated the population of the archipelago in the sixteenth century. Early maps preserve forms of the island’s Indigenous name.

The later city of Nassau lies here.