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In the Muelle de las Carabelas Museum (Caravel Dock Museum) are reproductions of La Niña, La Pinta and La Santa María which were built in 1992 to celebrate the 5th Centenary of the Discovery of America. It gets its name from the Muelle de las Carabelas., or the Caravel Dock.

Besides the replicas of the boats, which are its main attraction, the Muelle de las Carabelas Museum has a visitor centre, the medieval quarter (recreated around the dock) and the Island of Encuentro, which attempts to recreate the indigenous culture of the island of Guanahani, the first island where Christopher Columbus disembarked on the 12th of October 1492, and which he named San Salvador.