Descubriendo lo desconocido: ls navegación europea en el Gran Caribe durante la época de los veleros

This article presents the question of the European navigation through the Greater Caribbean from the first voyages of Christopher Columbus till the seventeenth century, when other Old World maritime powers, such as France, England and the Netherlands, began to explore and settle in the Hispanic Mare Clausum. The text, based on the selected historiography, descripts some examples of the maritime landscape, navigation routes and first accidents that occurred in the Greater Caribbean, the area that during the Sailing Age was considered the nucleus who connected European interests with the American world