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	Diego de Nicuesa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Diego de Nicuesa was a Spanish conquistador and explorer.
		Around 1509, under a land grant from the Spanish king, he became founder and governor of the colony of Castillo del Oro, in what is now Panama, one of the first two Spanish settlements on the American mainland (different sources give dates from 1508 to 1510).
		In 1511, Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, seeing Nicuesa as a rival for possible fame and fortune that would go to the Spaniard who found a route across the Isthmus of Panama[?], set Nicuesa adrift on an un-seaworthy boat; he and his crew drowned.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/di/Diego_de_Nicuesa.html (145 words)

	Vasco Núñez de Balboa
		Balboa sailed to Hispaniola in 1501 on an expedition under Rodrigo de Bastidas and Juan de la Cosa.
		Balboa made the colonists reject both Enciso's authority and that of Diego de Nicuesa, who was sent to Darién as governor after Enciso had sought redress with King Ferdinand.
		While Balboa was away, Pedro Arias de Ávila (generally known as Pedrarias) had been sent to Darién as a governor.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/v/va/vasco_nunez_de_balboa.html (668 words)

	2. The Caribbean and the Isthmus, 1499-1531. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Nicolás de Ovando assumed governorship of Santo Domingo.
		Alonso de Ojeda, with royal authorization, founded a colony on the east coast of the Isthmus of Panama.
		Diego de Nicuesa founded Nombre de Díos on the Isthmus.
	www.bartleby.com /67/895.html (424 words)

	History of the Panama Railroad-Overview
		Rodrigo de Bastidas, a wealthy notary public from Seville, was the first of many Spanish explorers to reach the isthmus discovering the islands of San Blas off the coast of Panama.
		Vasco Núñez de Balboa, a member of Bastidas's crew, had settled in Hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti) but stowed away on a voyage to Panama in 1510 to escape his creditors.
		Nicuesa had his fill of the country west of Belen, so he followed the coast to the eastward.
	www.trainweb.org /panama/history.html (1374 words)

	Fernandez Martin de Encisco
		One was Alonso de Ojeda and the other was Diego de Nicuesa.
		Nicuesa was given the province of Castilla del Oro, from Cape Gracias a Diós to the border of Nueva Andalusia.
		Vasco Nuñez de Balboa and his dog, Leoncico, were hiding in two large caskets, left his hiding place and presented himself to Enciso.
	www.bruce.ruiz.net /PanamaHistory/martin_fernandez_de_encisco.htm (2287 words)

	Playa Damas Project
		Nombre de Dios is a small village located on the Atlantic coast of Panamá, in the Province of Colón down the coast form Portobelo.
		The settlement of Nombre de Dios was re-established by Diego de Albites in 1519, and connected by a trail through the isthmus to the city of Panamá, established on the Pacific Coast in the same year by Pedro Arias de Avila.
		Today Nombre de Dios is a charming small village with a laid-back atmosphere and a beautiful landscape, with the tropical forest descending from the mountains into the bay.
	nautarch.tamu.edu /shiplab/pdamas05-historynd.htm (483 words)

	Alonso De Ojeda Caceres Extremadura Pueblos y Ciudades de España
		Como muchos otros poblados de nuestra región, surgió como consecuencia del Plan Badajoz, que se llevó a cabo en Extremadura allá por los años 60, fruto de la ley del 7 de Abril de 1952.
		En septiembre de ese mismo año regresa a La Española donde es acogido con cierto recelo por lo que vuelve a España.
		Diego de Nicuesa colaborará con Ojeda en la campaña contra los indígenas, consiguiendo fundar en febrero de 1510 San Sebastián, el primer asentamiento europeo en el continente Ojeda abandona la fundación -dejando a Pizarro como encargado de la defensa- y se traslada a Santo Domingo, recibiendo noticias de que la fundación ha sido abandonado.
	caceres.pueblosespana.net /alonsodeojeda (524 words)

	Panama - MSN Encarta
		The first European to land in the region was the Spanish explorer Rodrigo de Bastidas, who in 1501 went ashore at the site of Portobelo.
		In 1508 King Ferdinand V of Castile assigned lands, including Panama, to the Spanish explorer Diego de Nicuesa.
		During the succeeding decades of the 16th century the region was entirely conquered by Spain and the Native American population, which may have originally numbered up to 750,000, was decimated by disease, exploitation, and murder.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577478_8/Panama.html (1050 words)

	Colonial Panama
		One of these, Rodrigo de Bastida, headed an expedition that visited various parts of the Spanish Main, and discovered in 1501, a year in advance of the arrival of Columbus, that part of the coast lying between Cape Tiburon, on the Gulf of Urabá and the port of Retrete.
		In 1515, Diego de Albites and Tello de Guzman formed part of an expedition that crossed to the Pacific side of the Isthmus and arrived at a hut of a poor fisherman, at a point called by the Indians Panama, from the abundance of fish and sea shells found there.
		Nombre de Dios was abandoned at the end of the sixteenth century in favor of Porto Bello, known to be on the best havens on the entire Isthmian coast, south of Chiriqui Lagoon, to which even the steamers of the present day resort when an unusually strong norther is blowing at Colon.
	www.geocities.com /soluciones_67/panhistory.htm (3834 words)

	Desgracias del Gobernador DIEGO DE NICUESA
		De igual forma, solicitó al Cabildo que designase unos representantes, a fin de ofrecer el mando de la población a NICUESA.
		De igual forma, LOPE DE OLANO quien se encontraba preso con algunos más, convencieron a los comisionados de lo contraproducente que sería entregar el mando de Santa María de La Antigua a NICUESA.
		El 1 de marzo de 1511, los colonos trasladaron a NICUESA a un navío en malas condiciones y sin el suficiente aprovisionamiento y lo dejaron en la mar. Solo 17 personas quisieron seguir la suerte del Gobernador de Castilla de Oro.
	members.tripod.com /~Panamahistoria/Nicuesa.htm (385 words)

	Costa Rican Civil Wars: 1948 & 1955
		The Spanish King Ferdinand appointed Diego de Nicuesa as governor in 1506, but the colonialisation was hampered by the jungle, tropical diseases, and the Indian insurgency.
		On the same day, De Larm’s F-47D and two AT-6s also strafed some of National Guard units that were advancing on Villa Quesada, which was put under attack already since 05:10hrs in the morning.
		De Larm later claimed to have actually shot down this Mustang in a dogfight, but his claim was never confirmed, even if it is likely that the Calderonista “air force” remained active even in the days after the defeat at Santa Rosa.
	www.acig.org /artman/publish/printer_163.shtml (1918 words)

	Panama - MSN Encarta
		In 1501 Spanish explorer Rodrigo de Bastidas, sailing west from Venezuela, was the first European to reach the Isthmus of Panama.
		In 1508 the king of Spain, Ferdinand V, awarded settlement rights in Panama to explorer Diego de Nicuesa, and within a few years colonies were established along the Atlantic coast.
		Panama became important to the Spanish Empire in 1513 when explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa led an expedition across the isthmus from the Atlantic and became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577478_8/Panama.html (845 words)

	Embera Drua
		Diego de Nicuesa was named lord of everything north of the dividing line to include all of Central and North America (still undiscovered).
		Alonso de Ojeda sent an envoy, Martín Fernández de Enciso, with a group to settle Santa María de la Antigua, far down the Darien coast toward what is now Colombia.
		However, as a result of Drake’s attacks, in 1597 King Philip II ordered the installations at Nombre de Dios moved to Portobelo, the building of a fort at Portobelo and reinforcement of fortifications at the mouth of the Chagres River.
	www.trail2.com /embera/history.htm (5099 words)

	Castilla de Oro
		Luego de resolver problemas económicos, en noviembre de 1509 ambas expediciones zarparon de Santo Domingo.
		Ante la imposibilidad de llegar a Portobelo por la hostilidad de los indígenas, se trasladó a un lugar cercano a Punta Manzanillo que ofrecía mejores condiciones.
		La hostilidad de los indígenas fue certera, lo que provocó que los españoles quedaran reducidos a una situación precaria, toda vez que los cultivos fueron arrasados por aquellos y agotadas las provisiones de la flota.
	members.tripod.com /~panamahistoria/castilla.htm (748 words)

	Diego de Nicuesa
		Nicuesa was very arrogant and self assuming, and would soon prove to lack the ability to lead men during a crises.
		Nicuesa, and the few who remaining men were reduced to such a sorry shape by diseases and hunger, that they were not able to stand guard duty at night, and were wasting away.
		To Nicuesa, even more grateful than the rescuing ships, was the news that there was a rich and thriving town in his domains which invited him to come and rule over it.
	www.bruceruiz.net /PanamaHistory/diego_de_nicuesa.htm (3820 words)

	Athena Review 1,3: Alonzo de Ojeda on the coasts of Columbia and Panama
		As soon as Nicuesa landed, the two leaders after conferring together, decided that the first victims should be avenged, so they set out that same night to attack the murderers of Cosa and his seventy companions.
		Nicuesa proceeded from Coiba to Uraba, the province of his ally Ojeda.
		After Nicuesa's departure Ojeda was joined by a ship from Hispaniola with a crew of sixty men commanded by Bernardino de Calavera, who had stolen it.
	www.athenapub.com /martyr2.htm (2224 words)

	Gonzalo Guerrero - Wikipedia
		De lotgevallen van Guerrero vormen een van de meest wonderbaarlijke verhalen uit de periode van de Spaanse verovering van Amerika.
		In 1511 nam hij deel aan een expeditie onder leiding van Diego de Nicuesa vanuit Santo Domingo om de kust van Centraal-Amerika te verkennen.
		Toen de expeditie van Hernán Cortés in 1519 in Yucatán landde, kwam hem het verhaal ter ore dat er in het binnenland twee blanke mannen zouden leven.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gonzalo_Guerrero (298 words)

	Hernán Cortés (1485-1547)
		Cortés was the son of Martín Cortés de Monroy and of Doña Catalina Pizarro Altamarino—names of ancient lineage.
		He contracted syphilis and, as a result, missed the ill-fated expeditions of Diego de Nicuesa and Alonso de Ojeda, which sailed for the South American mainland in 1509.
		His property was seized by the officials he had left in charge, and reports of the cruelty of their administration and the chaos it created aroused concern in Spain.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/cortez.html (1257 words)

	Diego de Nicuesa: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Diego de Nicuesa: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
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	San Jose Costa Rica hotels, Santo Tomas hotel in the downtown
		In 1506 Ferdinand of Spain sent a governor, Diego de Nicuesa, to colonize the Atlantic coast of the isthmus he called Veragua.
		Diego got off to a bad start by running aground off the coast of Panamá and was forced to march north, enduring a welcome that was less hospitable than the one that had greeted Columbus.
		The prospect of vast loot drew adventurers, whose numbers were reinforced after Vasco Nuñez de Balboa's discovery of the Pacific in 1513.
	www.hotelsantotomas.com /history.htm (1497 words)

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	History of Costarica
		The Spanish king, Ferdinand, appointed Diego de Nicuesa as governor of the region, and sent him to colonize it in 1506.
		In 1562, Juan Vasquez de Coronado arrived as governor and founded a colony in the central highlands.
		Cartago was founded in 1563, and the healthy climate and fertile volcanic soil enabled the colony to survive.
	www.travelcostarica.biz /history.html (1305 words)

	The Singing Panamanian's Perspective on Panamá
		According to the chronicler Fernández de Oviedo, Pedrarias arrived with a little over two thousand at the recently founded town of Santa María la Antigua, where they were received by Balboa and 515 of his men.
		Hence an alternate route, the Camino de Cruces, was used during the rainy season, when the Chagres River was navigable to within 5 leagues of Panamá, at Venta de Cruces.
		When a caravan passed through Nombre de Dios, it would be a bustling, crowded center of commerce; but as soon as the fleet left, the city would be suddenly transformed into a ghost town.
	pulm.bumc.bu.edu /spweb/singingpanamanian.com/oldpma.html (3545 words)

	History of Costa Rica
		When Columbus anchored his storm-damaged vessels--Captiana, Gallega, Viscaína, and Santiago de Palos--in the Bay of Cariari, off the Caribbean coast on his fourth voyage to the New World in 1502, he was welcomed and treated with great hospitality by indigenous peoples who had never seen white men before.
		Nicuesa set the tone for future expeditions by foreshortening his own cultural lessons with the musket ball.
		Heredia (Cubujuquie) was founded in 1717, San José (Villaneuva de la Boca del Monte) in 1737, and Alajuela (Villa Hermosa) in 1782.
	www.centralamerica.com /cr/moon/mohistory.htm (5331 words)

	Diego de Nicuesa - Resultados de la búsqueda - MSN Encarta
		Diego de Nicuesa - Resultados de la búsqueda - MSN Encarta
		Cristóbal Colón recorrió las costas de este territorio en su zona norte, desde el cabo Gracias a Dios hasta Panamá, durante su cuarto viaje...
		La construcción de unos barcos por parte de Balboa y el anuncio de la llegada de un nuevo gobernador en sustitución del anciano Pedrarias Dávila,...
	es.encarta.msn.com /Diego_de_Nicuesa.html (123 words)

	Ojeda, Alonso de - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Near present Cartagena he was defeated by the Native Americans and virtually rescued by Diego de Nicuesa.
		Again he had trouble with the Native Americans and, leaving his men under the command of Francisco Pizarro, sought aid in Hispaniola.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ojeda-a1l.html (315 words)

	Panama Country History - Table - MSN Encarta
		Spanish explorer Rodrigo de Bastidas was the first European to land in the region.
		Lands including Panama assigned to Spanish explorer Diego de Nicuesa by King Ferdinand V of Castile.
		Pacific sighted from Panama by Vasco Núñez de Balboa.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /media_121627488/Panama_Country_History.html (255 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vasco Núñez de Balboa was born at Jerez de los Caballeros in the province of Estremadura.
		In 1500 he sailed with Rodrigo de Bastidas on a preliminary reconnaissance of the Colombian and northern Panamanian coasts.
		Meanwhile, two would-be conquistadores, Alonso de Ojeda and Diego de Nicuesa, received crown licenses to settle the regions explored by Bastidas.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/chh/bio/balboa_v.htm (958 words)

	Diego de Nicuesa - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Miembro de una familia hidalga e influyente, natural de Baeza, en 1508 fue nombrado gobernador de Veragua, territorio que se extendía por el litoral caribeño de las actuales Repúblicas de Nicaragua y Costa Rica y parte de la actual costa panameña, y al que se atribuía gran riqueza aurífera.
		Llegó a tomar posesión de su gobernación en 1510 y efectuó un recorrido por la costa, pero su expedición fue muy desdichada, e incluso durante un tiempo estuvo abandonado con un pequeño grupo de hombres en la isla Cayo de Agua.
		En 1511, su autoridad fue contestada por un grupo en el que participaba Vasco Núñez de Balboa, y se le obligó a embarcar en un navío inservible, sin que de él se volviesen a tener noticias.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diego_de_Nicuesa (195 words)

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