Editing Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (section)

=== Spanish colonial era ===
The area surrounding Guantanamo Bay was originally inhabited by the [[Taíno people]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Poole|first=Robert M.|date=October 2011|title=What Became of the Taino|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/what-became-of-the-taino-73824867/|access-date=9 September 2012|work=Smithsonian Magazine}}</ref> On 30 April 1494, [[Christopher Columbus]], on his second voyage, arrived and spent the night. The place where Columbus landed is now known as Fisherman's Point. Columbus declared the bay ''Puerto Grande''.<ref name="CNICVOL1CH1">{{cite web|author=Murphy|first=M. E.|title=The History of Guantanamo Bay 1494–1964|url=https://www.cnic.navy.mil/guantanamo/About/History/GuantanamoBayHistoryMurphy/Volume1/Chapter1/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831065451/http://www.cnic.navy.mil/guantanamo/About/History/GuantanamoBayHistoryMurphy/Volume1/Chapter1/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 August 2012|access-date=9 September 2012|publisher=United States Navy|volume=1}}</ref> The bay and surrounding areas briefly came under [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] control during the [[War of Jenkins' Ear]]. Prior to the outbreak of the conflict, the bay was referred to as ''Walthenham Harbor'' by British cartographers. The British expeditionary force renamed the bay ''Cumberland Bay''. They eventually retreated from the area after an attempt to march to [[Santiago de Cuba]] was repulsed by [[Spanish Army|Spanish troops]].<ref name="CNICVOL1CH1" />