Talk:Portobelo, Colón

==Founding of Portobelo==

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I've removed the two following contradictory statements from the article, for future correction.

Portobelo port was founded by Christopher Columbus in 1502, on his fourth expedition.

Portobelo was founded in 1597, and called "San Felipe de Portobelo" (referring to King Philip II of Spain).

Imc 09:07, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Why did you omit the re-capture of Porto Bello after Vernon temporarily captured it in 1739?--Charles A 22:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scipio-62 (talk • contribs)

Name
How did it lose the second l ? In Spanish the l and ll are completely different. -- Beardo (talk) 18:02, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The British kept the second L as a result of the Treaty of 1799. It's stored in the Tower of London. OK, just kidding. That's a good question, but it is unquestionably gone, even in Panamanian Spanish-language websites, although there are some that use both, too: check out
 * Portobelo
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 * Photo of roadsign in Panama

I visited there some 20 years ago, but don't remember what spellings were in use there. 155.213.224.59 (talk) 16:23, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Black Christ
Portobelo is a very well known town because of it's origins of the "Black Christ". Every year there is a large festival where people come from all over walking and eventually crawling into town to get to the church. I know of this because I have been residing here in Portobelo during the festival. More info can be found here: http://www.coloncity.com/blackchrist.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by TgreatALL (talk • contribs) 17:07, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Name, again
Porto Belo rather than Puerto Bello suggests Portuguese… but how? Or is it a pseudo-Latinate form? 89.64.81.64 (talk) 13:25, 24 October 2021 (UTC)


 * It seems to be treated as one word in modern Spanish, not two individual words. AnonMoos (talk) 00:04, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Nothing about seasonal trade fairs
The article doesn't really cover the fact that in the early years there wasn't much year-round settlement, but there was an annual convergence when ships sailing up the Pacific coast carrying silver from Peru arrived around the same time as part of the Caribbean treasure fleet (whose purpose was to carry the silver to Spain), and the silver was moved overland, and a simultaneous trade fair or market was also held. The fortifications were built in the late 16th century to protect this market, but only a relatively few people lived there year-round at that time. AnonMoos (talk) 00:14, 25 October 2021 (UTC)