Xtabi
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| name = Xtabi
| settlement_type = Cove
| image_skyline = Cave at Xtabi, Jamaica (February 2007).jpg
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| image_alt = Photograph of an Xtabi cave.
| image_caption = An Xtabi cave.
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| subdivision_name = Jamaica
| subdivision_type1 = Parish
| subdivision_name1 = Westmoreland
| subdivision_type2 = Town
| subdivision_name2 = Negril
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Xtabi is a cove on the cliffs of Negril, in Westmoreland, Jamaica. It consists of a labyrinth of caves and passageways carved from solid rock over millennia of ocean water striking it.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wmfKE0hSdowC&q=jamaica+caves%2C+age%29&pg=PA23 Jamaica Underground: The Caves, Sinkholes and Underground Rivers of the Island], Alan G. Fincham, University of the West Indies Press, 1998-03-31, page ?, {{ISBN|978-976-640-036-1}}.
An eponymous hotel sits atop the cliffs.
History
The first inhabitants of Xtabi were the Ciboney Indians, who arrived from the coast of South America around 500 B.C.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Rqn0a2auOwMC&dq=ciboney+indians%2C+jamaica&pg=PA21 Jamaica].Sean Sheehan & Angela Black, Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, October 2004, page 21, {{ISBN|978-0-7614-1785-9}}. The Ciboney who were also known as “Cave dwellers” lived along the cliffs of Negril for hundreds of years before eventually being displaced by the Arawaks in 750 A.D. The name Xtabi is derived from an Arawak word, which means “meeting place of the gods”.[http://www.frommers.com/destinations/negril/H32256.html Xtabi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612170422/http://www.frommers.com/destinations/negril/H32256.html |date=2009-06-12 }}, Frommer's Review (defines the Arawak word).
See also
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External links
- [http://wikimapia.org/#lat=18.2700215&lon=-78.3679515&z=18&l=0&m=b&v=8 Aerial view]
{{Geography of Jamaica}}
{{Hotels of Jamaica}}
Category:Bays and coves of Jamaica
Category:Buildings and structures in Westmoreland Parish
Category:Geography of Westmoreland Parish
Category:Caves of the Caribbean
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