Editing Tobago (section)

== Etymology ==
Tobago was named ''Belaforme'' by [[Christopher Columbus]] "because from a distance it seemed beautiful". The Spanish friar [[Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa]] wrote that the [[Kalina people|Kalina]] (mainland Caribs) called the island ''Urupina'' because of its resemblance to a big snail,<ref name="Boomert"/>{{Rp|84–85}} while the [[Island Caribs|Kalinago]] (Island Caribs) called it ''Aloubaéra'', supposedly because it resembled the ''alloüebéra'', a giant snake which was supposed to live in a cave on the island of [[Dominica]].<ref name="Boomert" />{{Rp|79}} The earliest known record of the use of the name ''Tabaco'' to refer to the island is a Spanish royal order issued in 1511. That name was inspired by the resemblance of the shape of the island to the fat cigars smoked by the [[Taíno]] inhabitants of the Greater Antilles.<ref name="Boomert" />{{Rp|84–85}}