Santa María la Antigua del Darién explained
| Common Name: | Santa María la Antigua del Darién |
| Native Name: | Santa María la Antigua del Darién |
| Year Start: | 1510 |
| Year End: | 1524 |
Santa María la Antigua del Darién—turned into Dariena in the Latin of De Orbo Novo[1] —was a Spanish colonial town founded in 1510 by Vasco Núñez de Balboa, located in present-day Colombia approximately 40miles south of Acandí, within the municipality of Unguía in the Chocó Department. It was the first city founded by conquistadors in mainland America.[2] After Pascual de Andagoya, a Spanish-Basque conquistador under the direction of Panama governor Pedrarias Dávila, founded Panama City in 1519,[3] Santa María la Antigua del Darién was abandoned and in 1524 was attacked and burned by the indigenous people.
In 2012 the lost site of the town was rediscovered, and in 2019 the government of Colombia opened the Parque Arqueológico e Histórico de Santa María de Belén la Antigua del Darién.[4]
Notes and References
- D'Anghiera, Peter Martyr. De Orbo Novo . Trans. Richard Eden as The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and Ilands lately founde in the west Ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne,, §3. William Powell (London), 1555.
- Vignolo. Paolo. Santa María de la Antigua: Prácticas y representaciones de un culto mariano entre Sevilla y el Darién. E-misférica. April 2008. 10 February 2012.
- Book: Andagoya, Pascual de. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Narrative_of_the_Proceedings_of_Pedrarias_Davila/Narrative_of_Pascual_de_Andagoya. Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila. Narrative of Pascual de Andagoya . The Hakluyt Society. 21 June 2019. Wikisource.
- News: 2019-03-30. La primera ciudad de América redescubierta y convertida en Parque Arqueológico. Spanish. The first city in America rediscovered and converted into an Archaeological Park. Semana. 2021-02-01.
