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Who were the first inhabitants of Jamaica ​

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It is located south of Cuba in the Caribbean Sea. The total land area is 10,991 sq km. The original inhabitants of Jamaica were the indigenous Taíno, an Arawak-speaking people who began arriving on Hispaniola by canoe from the Belize and the Yucatan peninsula sometime before 2000 BCE.

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