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In 1506, Nicuesa was given the job of governing Costa Rica, but ran aground off the coast of Panama. He made his way north overland, against resistance from the native population. The combination of guerrilla warfare and tropical disease killed half his expedition before he gave up. In 1508, Diego de Nicuesa received a land grant at Veragua ...
- Mysterious disappearance
- Conquistador and explorer
Diego de Nicuesa ( Torredonjimeno, Reino de Jaén de la Corona castellana, ca. 1478 – mar Caribe de la gobernación de Veragua, Corona de Castilla, marzo de 1511) fue un explorador y conquistador castellano que ocupaba el cargo efectivo como primer gobernador de Veragua en Tierra Firme desde 1510 hasta 1511, y que a su vez formaría parte ...
- Nuevo cargo
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa, (como gobernador fáctico de Veragua)
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Nicuesa, Diego (1464–c. 1511)Diego de Nicuesa (b. 1464; d. ca. 1 March 1511), Spanish explorer. Born in Baeza, Spain, and raised in the house of Don Enrique Enríquez, uncle of Ferdinand V, Nicuesa was appointed on June 9, 1509, as governor of the reportedly rich Veragua, or Castilla del Oro (between Cape Gracias a Dios, at the border of Nicaragua and Honduras, and the middle of the Gulf of ...
The combination of guerrilla warfare and tropical disease killed half his expedition before he gave up. In 1508, Diego de Nicuesa received a land grant at Veragua from Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Spanish monarch.: 95, 134–135 He became founder and governor of Castilla de Oro, in what is now Panama, one of the first two Spanish settlements on ...
In 1511, the Spanish caravel Santa María de la Barca set sail along the Central American coast under the command of Pedro de Valdivia. The ship was sailing to Santo Domingo from Darién to inform the colonial authorities there of ongoing conflict between conquistadors Diego de Nicuesa and Vasco Nuñez de Balboa in Darién.
Diego de Nicuesa. When Columbus returned to Spain in 1504, after his fourth voyage to the New World, he reported on the rich goldfields in Veraguas on the Isthmus. This earned the name of Castilla del Oro to the area. All of Tierra Firme, West of the Gulf of Darien, was named Castilla del Oro, while all of the land to the East was named Nueva ...
Daftar conquistador dan penjelajah. Hernán Cortés ( Meksiko, 1518-1522, Honduras, 1524, Baja California, 1532-1536) Francisco Pizarro ( Peru, 1509-1535) Hernando de Soto ( Amerika Serikat, 1539-1542) Francisco Vásquez de Coronado ( Amerika Serikat barat daya, 1540-1542) Diego de Almagro ( Peru, 1524-1535, Chili, 1535-1537)
