This article is about the historic site on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. For the suburb of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, see La Isabela, Distrito Nacional.
La Isabela Archaeological National Park conmemorative plaque and flags
La Isabela in Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic was the first stable Spanish settlement and town in the Americas established in December 1493. The site is 42 km west of the city of Puerto Plata, adjacent to the village of El Castillo. The area now forms a National Historic Park.
La Isabela was founded by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage, and named after Queen Isabella I of Castile. The settlement of La Navidad, established by Columbus one year earlier to the west of La Isabela in what is present day Haiti, was destroyed by the native Taíno people before he returned. La Isabela was abandoned by 1500.[1] The only earlier European settlements in the Americas were settlements by the Vikings in Greenland and Newfoundland which dated from 500 years earlier.
La Isabela was established to search for precious metals.[2]
La Isabela was struck by the first known epidemic to spread from Europe to the New World in 1493[3] and two of the earliest North Atlantic hurricanes observed by Europeans in 1494 and 1495.
Hunger and disease led to mutiny, and a group of settlers, led by Bernal de Pisa, attempted to capture and make off with several ships and go back to Spain. La Isabela barely survived until 1496 when Columbus decided to abandon it in favor of a new settlement founded in 1498 called Nueva Isabela, and soon renamed Santo Domingo.
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