La Isabela
La Isabela in Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic was the primary Spanish city withinside the Americas. The site is 42 km west of the metropolis of Puerto Plata, adjoining the village of El Castillo. The vicinity is now bureaucracy a National Historic Park.
La Isabela was based with the aid of Christopher Columbus throughout his second voyage in December 1493 and was named after Queen Isabella I of Castile. The first strive of an everlasting agreement, the citadel press of La Navidad, hooked up with the aid of using Columbus a yr in advance to the west of La Isabela, in what's modern-day Haiti, have been destroyed with the aid of using the local Taíno human beings earlier than he returned. La Isabela was deserted with the aid of 1500. The best in advanced European settlements withinside the Americas had been settlements with the aid of using the Vikings in Greenland and Newfoundland which dated from 500 years in advance.
La Isabela was hooked up to looking for valuable metals. La Isabela was struck with the aid of using the primarily regarded epidemic to unfold from Europe to the New World in 1493 and of the earliest North Atlantic hurricanes located with the aid of using Europeans in 1494 and 1495.
Hunger and disorder caused mutiny, and a set of settlers, led by the aid of Bernal de Pisa, tried to seize and make off with numerous ships and move back to Spain. La Isabela slightly survived till 1496 while Columbus determined to desert it in choice of a brand new agreement based in 1498 referred to as Nueva Isabela, and shortly renamed Santo Domingo.
Location: Villa Isabela Province of Puerto Plata, 57000 Dominican Republic
