Bienvenidos a un bohío.

A bohío is a simple dwelling, native to the archipelago known to the world today as the West Indies.

The signature physical feature of a bohío is its thatched palm-frond roof. Generations of Western innovations have thus far failed to create a more effective method of keeping the tropical downpours typical to the Caribbean from the insides of these timeless abodes.

The bohío served as the basic component of the Antillean communities for centuries before the arrival of avaricious conquerors. A bohío represented an individual family's special but not exclusive corner in a community that relied on its interactions with others: islands, villages, clans, families, people, animals, plants, all of nature.

The bohío was the building block upon which the original inhabitants of the Caribbean islands lived their simple lives in communion with the world around them.

The bohío lives on today in every part of the West Indies and in the heart and soul of every West Indian - no matter where he or she may live.

This is just one bohío and, like all bohíos, you are welcome here.