{{more citations needed|date=July 2017}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Rum Cay |other_name = |native_name = Mamana |nickname = |image_shield = |motto = |image_skyline = Rum Cay, The Bahamas.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption = |image_flag = |image_map = Rum Cay in Bahamas (zoom).svg |mapsize = |map_caption = |pushpin_map = |pushpin_label_position = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = The Bahamas |subdivision_type1 = Island |subdivision_name1 = Rum Cay |government_type = District Council |leader_title1 = Chief Councillor |leader_name1 = |leader_title2 = Deputy Chief Councillor |leader_name2 = |established_title = Established |established_date = 1996 |established_title2 = |established_date2 = |established_title3 = |established_date3 = |area_total_km2 = 78 |population_as_of = 2022 |population_footnotes = |population_note = |settlement_type = |population_total = 90<ref>{{cite web |title=Census population and housing |url=https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/wcm/connect/c0d9fae8-54df-49e3-b4b9-92e29e0b264c/2022+CENSUS+PRELIMINARY+RESULTS_FINAL+April+12+2023.pdf?MOD=AJPERES |website=Bahamas Gov |access-date=17 April 2023 |archive-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415193553/https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/wcm/connect/c0d9fae8-54df-49e3-b4b9-92e29e0b264c/2022+CENSUS+PRELIMINARY+RESULTS_FINAL+April+12+2023.pdf?MOD=AJPERES |url-status=live }}</ref> |population_density_km2 = auto |population_metro = |population_density_metro_km2 = |timezone = EST |utc_offset = −5 |timezone_DST = EDT |utc_offset_DST = −4 |coordinates = {{coord|format=dms|type:isle_region:BS|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = <!--for references: use <ref> </ref> tags--> |elevation_m = 37 |elevation_ft = |postal_code_type = <!-- enter ZIP code, Postcode, Post code, Postal code... --> |postal_code = |area_code = |website = }} '''Rum Cay''' (formerly known as '''Mamana''' and '''Santa Maria de la Concepción''') is an island and district of The Bahamas. It measures {{convert|30|sqmi|sqkm}} in area. It is located at Lat.: N23 42' 30" – Long.: W 74 50' 00". It has many rolling hills that rise to about 120 feet (37 m).
The main settlement is Port Nelson. Its population was recorded as 90 {{As of|2022|lc=y}}. Before 1996 the island was part of a combined district of San Salvador and Rum Cay.<ref>{{cite web |title=Census population and housing |url=https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/wcm/connect/c0d9fae8-54df-49e3-b4b9-92e29e0b264c/2022+CENSUS+PRELIMINARY+RESULTS_FINAL+April+12+2023.pdf?MOD=AJPERES |website=Bahamas Gov |access-date=17 April 2023 |archive-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415193553/https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/wcm/connect/c0d9fae8-54df-49e3-b4b9-92e29e0b264c/2022+CENSUS+PRELIMINARY+RESULTS_FINAL+April+12+2023.pdf?MOD=AJPERES |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Location==
Rum Cay is 20 miles (32 km) southwest of San Salvador Island.
==History==
===Aboriginals===
Rum Cay was called ''Mamana'' (or ''Manigua''), meaning "mid waters land", by the native Lucayans.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Ahrens |first=Wolfgang P. |date=2015 |title=Naming the Bahamas Islands: History and Folk Etymology |url=https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/article/view/14910 |journal=Onomastica Canadiana |language=en |volume=94 |issue=2 |pages=101 |issn=2816-7015 |archive-date=2023-02-21 |access-date=2023-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221041210/https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/article/view/14910 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the north there is a cave containing Lucayan drawings and carvings. Various artifacts from the Arawak period have been found by farmers in the fertile soil, which the natives enriched with bat guano.
===Spanish=== Some writers, such as Samuel Eliot Morison, identified Rum Cay as the site of one of Christopher Columbus's landfalls during his 1492 voyage, as the island Columbus called ''Santa María de la Concepción''.<ref name=":0" /> However, a variety of other historians, geographers, and other writers identify that island as corresponding to different islands in the Bahamas or Caicos.<ref>Wilcomb E. Washburn, "Landfall Controversy" in ''The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia'', Vol. 1 (ed. Silvio A. Bedin: Simon & Schuster, 1992).</ref>
==Transportation== The island is served by Port Nelson Airport.
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{wikivoyage}} * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100405222948/http://www.rumcayherald.com/ General information about Rum Cay]}}
{{Districts of The Bahamas}} {{Authority control}}
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