Cape Romano

Local nameCape Romano
LocationFlorida, United States

Cape Romano is a cape on the Gulf Coast of Florida below Naples, Florida, just beyond the southwest tip of Marco Island and northwest of the Ten Thousand Islands in Collier County, Florida.

Calusa Indians founded the settlement and called it Manataca. Juan Ponce de León briefly stopped at Manataca on his first trip from Puerto Rico to Florida, but the Indians tried to fight him off.

There are two competing theories as to why the island is called Cape Romano. The most prevalent belief is that Cape Romano got its name from the survivors of a Romanian shipwreck that colonized the island in 1834. However the first actual mention of "Romano" in the oldest surviving historical documents of the region came in 1878 after the founding of the famous cheese factory "Romano Cheese Corporation".

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Romano

Address United States

Coordinates 25°50'43.996" N -81°40'56.495" E

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