The Columbus monument at Moruga on the south coast of Trinidad, where local tradition says his men came ashore in 1498Image: Kalamazadkhan · CC BY-SA 4.0Columbus sights three hills and names Trinidad
Christopher Columbus set out on his third voyage to the Americas from Sanlúcar de Barrameda in southern Spain on 30 May 1498 with six ships. He sent three straight to Hispaniola and took the other three further south than before, hoping to find new lands near the equator. He had placed the voyage under the protection of the Holy Trinity and vowed to name the first land he saw after it. After weeks becalmed in the heat, with water running short, the crews were growing desperate. On 31 July 1498 a sailor at the masthead saw three hills rising from the sea, and Columbus named the island La Trinidad. Over the next days his ships ran along its south coast, a party went ashore for water, and the fleet passed into the Gulf of Paria, from where Columbus saw the coast of the South American mainland, although at first he took it for another island. Trinidad was then home to Arawak- and Carib-speaking peoples; Spain did not settle it until 1592, and Britain took it in 1797.
Source: Library of Congress: Descriptive account of the island of Trinidad ↗
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