San Salvador Coast

San Salvador is a low island in the eastern Bahamas, surrounded by Atlantic waters and reefs. Archaeological remains record Lucayan communities on the island before European colonisation. It is a leading candidate for Guanahani, the island where Columbus made his first landfall in the Americas on 12 October 1492, although the precise identification has long been debated. Spanish enslavement soon devastated the Lucayan population of the archipelago.