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2 unusual facts about Alonso de Ojeda


Alonso de Ojeda

Sir Arthur Helps, The Spanish Conquest in America, (new edition, four volumes, New York, 1900–04)

Ojeda defeated the natives in the coastal area and on pursuing some of the survivors who had escaped into the jungle he came upon the village of Turbaco.


Province of Tierra Firme

In 1509, authority was granted to Alonso de Ojeda and Diego de Nicuesa, to colonize the territories between the west side of the Gulf of Urabá and Cabo de la Vela, and Urabá westward to Cabo Gracias a Dios in present-day Honduras.

Riosucio

The historical site of Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first European settlement built in the Americas mainland in 1510 by Alonso de Ojeda and destroyed in 1517 by the indios and therefore abandoned.

Royal fifth

During the age of exploration, Spanish and Portuguese captains and conquistadores were careful to always set aside the royal fifth from any spoils they captured, and accusations of embezzling the 'royal fifth' ended the careers of a few of them (e.g. Alonso de Ojeda, Pedro Alonso Niño).


see also

Spanish Colombian

In 1510 Alonso de Ojeda founded San Sebastián de Urabá, the first Spanish settlement on the mainland, but that same year its provisional ruling, Francisco Pizarro, decided to leave and moved to a site in the Gulf of Urabá and founded under the direction of Martín Fernández de Enciso to Santa María la Antigua del Darién.

Spanish colonization of the Americas

In 1500 the city of Nueva Cádiz was founded on the island of Cubagua, Venezuela, and it was followed by the founding by Alonso de Ojeda of Santa Cruz in present day Guajira peninsula.