Piracy in the Caribbean in the New World were violated with greater frequency by the merchants of other nations. The Spanish port on the island of Trinidad off the northern coast of South America, permanently settled only in 1592, became a major point of contact between all the nations with a presence in the Caribbean. In the early 17th century, expensive fortifications and the size of the colonial garrisons at the major Spanish ports increased to deal with the enlarged presence of Spain's competitors in the Caribbean, but the treasure fleet's silver shipments and the number of Spanish-owned merchant ships operating in the region
Pilosans of the Caribbean of the other sloth family, that of the three-toed sloths, restricted to a small island in Panama. The record of a tamandua from Cozumel, off Mexico, was probably in error. The genera of Caribbean pilosans are classified as follows: Cuba is the largest of the Greater Antilles. A diverse assortment of sloths is known. Hispaniola, the second largest of the Greater Antilles, is divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It has a diverse sloth fauna. Tortuga is an island off northern Haiti. Gonâve is an island off southwestern Haiti. Only one sloth is known from the Quaternary of Puerto