Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 2834
Land area (2000): 1.749556 sq. miles (4.531329 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.457886 sq. miles (1.185920 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.207442 sq. miles (5.717249 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71525
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 26.960867 N, 80.096620 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 33469
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tequesta
Wikipedia
The Tequesta (also Tekesta, Tegesta, Chequesta, Vizcaynos) Native American tribe, at the time of first European contact, occupied an area along the southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida. They had infrequent contact with Europeans and had largely migrated by the middle of the 18th century.
Tequesta is the name of a tribe in Florida at the time of first European contact. It may also refer to:
- Tequesta, Florida, a municipality in Palm Beach County
- Tequesta Point, a complex of residential high-rises in Miami, Florida
- Tequesta Trace Middle School, in Broward County, Florida
- Tequesta, the journal of the Historical Society of Southern Florida
Usage examples of "tequesta".
He'd fished many times for trout and snook and bonefish in the purling waterways where, at the dawning of the century, the Calusa and Tequesta silently paddled their buttonwood canoes.
Floats celebrated such fabricated milestones as the first beachfront Thanksgiving, when friendly settlers and gentle Tequesta Indians shared wild turkey and fresh coconut milk under the palms.