Great Camanoe is primarily a residential island, divided into two communities, Indigo Plantation and The Privateers, on the southern half of the island.

Visitors often anchor at Lee Bay or Cam Bay, a national park and good snorkeling site.

[2] These names are obvious references to American crocodiles (cayman or caiman) which inhabited the area when the islands were first explored by Christopher Columbus and to this day are still found on Cuba, Hispaniola and other Caribbean locations.

In Columbus' native tongue, Italian, the word cayman is spelled caimano.

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