thumb|left|300px|Government House, Port of Spain, 1914 Port of Spain was founded by the Spanish as . The first settlement was near the site of the Amerindian fishing village of Cumucurapo ("place of the silk cotton trees"), located in the area today known as Mucurapo, west of the city centre. The name Conquerabia is also recorded for an Amerindian settlement in this area; this may have been a separate village, another name for Cumucurapo, or the result of miscomprehension by early Spanish settlers, who established a port here: , later . In 1560, a Spanish garrison was posted near the foot of the Laventille Hills, which today form the city's eastern boundary.
thumb|left|300px|Government House, Port of Spain 1914 Port of Spain was founded by the Spanish as . The first settlement was near the sit,e of the Amerindian fishing village of Cumucurapo ("place of the silk cotton trees"), located in the area today known as Mucurapo, west of the c,ity centre. The name Conquerabia is also recorded for an Amerindian settlement in this area; this may have been a separate village another name for Cumucurapo, or the result of miscompreh,ension by early Spanish settlers, who established a port here:  later . In 1560, a Spanish garrison was posted near the foot of the Laventille Hills, which today form the city's eastern boundary.