Talk:Timeline of San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Comment added by User:Arnaldootero and edited shortly afterwards by an IP. Comment moved here by John of Reading (talk) 10:03, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

I want to complain about the information in the article from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Someone mis-edited the Introduction of San Juan,

Puerto Rico: (which cannot be edited)

- Puerto Rico's capital is the third oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican

Republic, founded in 1496 and Panama City, in Panama, founded in 1519. [5] Several historical buildings are located in San Juan; -

That's not true. I will review history as reported on other Wikipedia pages. The oldest European-established capital city in the Americas was

certainly La Isabela in today's Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic (Hispaniola). Founded by Bartholomew Columbus in 1496, on

the east bank of the Ozama River and then moved by Nicolás de Ovando in 1502 to the west bank of the river, the city is the oldest

continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, and was the first seat of the Spanish colonial rule in the New World.

In 1508, Juan Ponce de León founded the original settlement which was named Caparra after the old roman city of Cáparra in the Province

of Cáceres in Spain, the birthplace of Nicolás de Ovando, then the Governor of Spain's Caribbean territories. [9] A year later in 1509; the

settlement was moved to a site then called Puerto Rico, Spanish for "rich port" or "good port", making San Juan the second capital city

founded in the Americas. In 1521, the newer settlement was given its formal name: Puerto Rico de San Juan Bautista. The ambiguous use

of San Juan Bautista and Puerto Rico for both the city and the island in time led to a reversal in practical use by most inhabitants: by 1746

the name for the city (Puerto Rico) had become that of the entire island, leading to the city being identified as Puerto Rico and the capital as

San Juan de Puerto Rico on maps of the era. [11] [12] [13]

Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded Havana on August 25, 1515, on the southern coast of the island, near the present town of Surgidero de Batabanó, or more likely on

the banks of the Mayabeque River close to Playa Mayabeque. All attempts to found a city on Cuba's south coast failed. However, an early map of Cuba drawn in 1514

places the town at the mouth of this river.[19][20]

Between 1514 and 1519 the Spanish established at least two settlements on the north coast, one of them in La Chorrera, today in the neighborhoods of Vedado and

Miramar, next to the Almendares River. The town that became Havana finally originated adjacent to what was then called Puerto de Carenas (literally, "Careening Bay"),

in 1519. The quality of this natural bay, which now hosts Havana's harbor, warranted this change of location, springboard for the Spanish conquest of the Americas,

becoming a stopping point for treasure-laden Spanish galleons returning to Spain.

The King Philip II of Spain granted Havana the title of City in 1592. [7]

The city of Panama was founded on August 15, 1519, by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila. The city was the starting point for

expeditions that conquered the Inca Empire in Peru. It was a stopover point on one of the most important trade routes in the American

continent, leading to the fairs of Nombre de Dios and Portobelo, through which passed most of the gold and silver that Spain took from the

Americas. In 1671 Henry Morgan with a band of 1400 men attacked and looted the city, which was subsequently destroyed by fire. The ruins

of the old city still remain and are a popular tourist attraction known as Panamá Viejo (Old Panama). The city was rebuilt in 1673 in a new

location approximately 5 miles (8 km) southwest of the original city. This location is now known as the Casco Viejo (Old Quarter) of the

city.

That said, Panama City was the fourth capital city. In fact, Aguada in Puerto Rico was founded in 1510, the city of San German in Puerto Rico

was founded in 1511, Spanish settlement in San Germán occurred early in the conquest and colonization of Puerto Rico. After the destruction of a small

early settlement near modern-day Añasco during a Taíno uprising (Santa Maria de la Guadianilla) in February 1511, the new settlement was built by Miguel Diaz at

Guayanilla [4] Santiago de Cuba was founded by Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar on July 25, 1514 prior to Havana. The settlement was

destroyed by fire in 1516, and was immediately rebuilt.

Fundación De Ciudades Españolas En El Nuevo Mundo En El Siglo XVI - at the following website address:

historiadelnuevomundo.com/index/2015/fundacion-de-ciudades-en-el-nuevo-mundo-en el centro-16vi /