port and corregimiento in Portobelo District, Colón Province, Panama. Located on the northern part of the Isthmus of Panama, it is 32 km (20 mi) northeast...
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Iglesia de San Felipe, a Roman Catholic parish church located in Portobelo, Panama. The statue was found on the shores of the town's harbour. Life size...
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The fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo are military constructions, built by the Spanish Empire during the 17th and...
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Darién Coiba La Amistad San Lorenzo Portobelo Panamá Viejo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage...
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Panama City (Spanish: Ciudad de Panamá; pronounced [sjuˈða(ð) ðe panaˈma]), also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city...
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Edward Vernon (section Portobelo)
War of Jenkins' Ear, in 1739 he was responsible for the capture of Portobelo, Panama, seen as expunging the failure of Admiral Hosier there in a previous...
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Black Christ Church) is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Portobelo, Panama. Built in 1814, it houses a statue of Cristo Negro (Black Christ;...
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Panama (/ˈpænəmɑː/ PAN-ə-mah, /pænəˈmɑː/ pan-ə-MAH; Spanish: Panamá IPA: [panaˈma] ), officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America...
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Pacific. Goods were taken from ports in Portobelo and Nombre de Dios, transported overland to ports in Panama City and boarded on ships headed to South...
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Real" and "Camino de Cruces", linking Panama City and the Pacific with Nombre de Dios (and later with “Portobelo”) and the Atlantic, making possible the...
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Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596), body in lead coffin off the coast of Portobelo, Panama Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963)...
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Sandra Eleta (category People from Panama City)
lived and worked in Portobelo, Panama for many years, since the mid-1970s. She is known for is a photograph she captured in 1977 in Panama, entitled "The One...
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(Puerto Rico), Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), Veracruz (Mexico), and Portobelo (Panama), which were connected by galleon routes. The Bay Islands were ceded...
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for Spain. The route became known as the Camino Real de Portobelo, or Royal Road of Portobelo, although it was more commonly known as Camino Real de Cruces...
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The Portobelo District is one of the districts that make up the Colón Province, Panama. It covers an area of 397 sq.km, and the latest official estimate...
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Arturo Lindsay (category People from Colón, Panama)
Georgia, and Portobelo, Panama. In the mid-1990s Lindsay returned to Panama, where he co-founded the Painting Workshop of Taller Portobelo; an artist cooperative...
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composed of three Spanish warships and 14 merchant vessels sailing from Portobelo, Panama, to Cartagena, Colombia. On 8 June 1708, the fleet encountered a British...
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be slightly confused. The Cassandra was last heard of in 1723 at Portobelo, Panama, a place that also briefly figures in Treasure Island as "Portobello"...
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and which will have for district the province of Castilla del Oro until Portobelo and its territory; the City of Natá and its territory; the Governorate...
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Battle of Porto Bello (1739) (redirect from Battle of portobelo)
between a British naval force aiming to capture the settlement of Portobelo in Panama, and its Spanish defenders. It took place during the War of the Austrian...
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Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo (category History of Panama)
Nombre de Dios, at first; and, later, Portobelo. (The dry-season, overland route—the Camino Real—connected Panama City with those ports directly.) Attracted...
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Rivera was a faithful pilgrim of the Black Christ procession in Portobelo, Panama, from 1975 to 1985, and even wrote a song about the Black Christ,...
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Brito de los Ríos Fernández Valdelomar, viceroy of New Granada (at Portobelo, Panama in refuge from Bogotá) (1812–1813) Francisco Montalvo y Ambulodi Arriola...
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In Panama, a corregimiento is a subdivision of a district, which in turn is a subdivision of a province. It is the smallest administrative division level...
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Bastimentos was an island, anchorage and harbour near Portobelo on the north-western coast of Panama discovered and named in Spanish "Isle and port of Provisions"...
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coast of South America, with stops at Aspinwall (later Colón, Panama) and Portobelo, Panama; Martinique; and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. On 3 December...
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Melchor de Navarra y Rocaful) (1626 in Aragon, Spain; April 13, 1691 in Portobelo, Panamá) was a Spanish politician. From November 20, 1681 to August 15, 1689...
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Herrera Province (redirect from Herrera, Panama)
isthmus of Panama was divided into two provinces, Panamá and Veraguas. The province Panamá consisted of the districts of Natá, Portobelo, Panama and Darién...
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many of their ships. He died of dysentery in 1596 off the coast of Portobelo, Panama. In 2002 a mission to recover his body and bring it to Plymouth was...
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such as potatoes and quinoa from Callao to Europe. On the other hand, Portobelo was the port on the Atlantic Ocean from where European merchandise was...
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