Nasáu

"Nasáu (en inglés: Nassau /næs/) es la capital y el centro comercial y cultural de las Bahamas. La ciudad tiene una población de alrededor de 241.207 habitantes (según el censo de 2010), lo que la convierte en la mayor población del archipiélago, ya que en ella se concentra aproximadamente el 70% de la población del país. La ciudad cuenta con los servicios del Aeropuerto Internacional Lynden Pindling, el principal del país, que está situado a unos 16 kilómetros al oeste del centro de Nasáu y que opera vuelos diarios hacia las principales ciudades de los Estados Unidos, Canadá, el Reino Unido y el Caribe. Nasáu se encuentra en la isla de Nueva Providencia, que funciona como si se tratara de uno de los distritos del país, aunque formalmente no lo sea. La ciudad no dispone de gobierno local y es administrada directamente por una división administrativa del gobierno central. Nasáu disfruta de un clima tropical y es un importante centro turístico. Dispone, además, de un importante puerto y de una arquitectura colonial típica de muchas ciudades de la región. Las temperaturas rara vez superan los 33 °C en verano y en los meses de invierno las temperaturas diurnas oscilan entre los 20 y 26 °C, bajando muy pocas veces de los 10 °C."

"Nassau /næs/ is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has an estimated population of 274,400 as of 2016, or 70 percent of the entire population of the Bahamas. Lynden Pindling International Airport, the major airport for the Bahamas, is located about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west of Nassau city centre, and has daily flights to major cities in the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The city is located on the island of New Providence, which functions much like a business district. Nassau is the site of the House of Assembly and various judicial departments and was considered historically to be a stronghold of pirates. The city was named in honour of William III of England, Prince of Orange-Nassau. Nassau's modern growth began in the late eighteenth century, with the influx of thousands of American Loyalists and their slaves to the Bahamas following the American Revolutionary War. Many of them settled in Nassau (then and still the commerce capital of the Bahamas) and eventually came to outnumber the original inhabitants. As the population of Nassau grew, so did its populated areas. Today the city dominates the entire island and its satellite, Paradise Island. However, until the post-Second World War era, the outer suburbs scarcely existed. Most of New Providence was uncultivated bush until Loyalists were resettled there following the American Revolutionary War; they established several plantations, such as Clifton and Tusculum. Slaves were imported as labour. After the British abolished the international slave trade in 1807, they resettled thousands of Africans liberated from slave ships by the Royal Navy on New Providence (at Adelaide Village and Gambier Village), along with other islands such as Grand Bahama, Exuma, Abaco and Inagua. In addition, slaves freed from American ships, such as the Creole case in 1841, were allowed to settle there. The largest concentration of Africans historically lived in the "Over-the-Hill" suburbs of Grants Town and Bain Town to the south of the city of Nassau, while most of the inhabitants of European descent lived on the island's northern coastal ridges."