It first appeared in a Spanish map in 1511. [6] therein, Barbados is east of the Windwards, part of the Lesser Antilles, roughly at 13°N of the equator.
It is about 168 km (104 mi) east of both the countries of Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and 400 km (250 mi) north-east of Trinidad and Tobago.