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Ah Ha! that caught ya attention. Ya know as said before it is unusual we call lost cities lost? They do not walk off into the Forrest and get lost?
So the following lost...er forgotten city is from old Panama. It is not an ancient lost city by a rather modern one in the terms of ancient lost....er...Forgotten cities go.
Can you imagine being the possible first person to conclusively locate the remains of the first European city in South America, Founded by Balboa discover of the Pacific ocean?
It is not lost native American city of the Maya or Incas or any other indigenous peoples. But the first Establish European city on the mainland of South America.
In September 1510, the first permanent European settlement, Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien on the Americas mainland was founded. Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Martin de Enciso agreed on the site near the mouth of the Tarena River on the Atlantic. Balboa maneuvered and was appointed Mayor on the first official cabildo abierto, (in English translation meaning municipal council) held on the mainland. On August 28, 1513, the Santa María de La Antigua del Darién mission was erected with Fray Juan de Quevedo as the first Catholic Bishop in the continental Americas.
It has been claim this early settlement obtained gold of the local native population though trade and by force so much that the natives lost patience with the Spaniards and when Santa María la Antigua del Darién was abandoned in 1519 and in 1524 was attacked and burned by the indigenous people.
in 1519 the settlement of old Panama began. Strange that I say old because that too was destroyed by Henry Morgan in 1671and abandoned in favor of the Present Panama City we have today
Balboa in the following document mentions the first settlement...
Since 1524 the first Spanish settlement of mainland South America has been largely Forgotten. Yet later maps gave tantalizing images of the site.
Perhaps a wonderful adventure awaits for the willing explorer to dare?
But before any would be explorer pack his or her backs on should realize others have gone before and some have claimed to have located the site?
More importantly it is in what we call the forbidden zone near the borders of Columbia where Narcotics smugglers travel through the Forrest transporting drugs.
If ya can handle all those dangers in mosquito infested swamps and have a little bit of a death wish you may just make the discovery of a life time.
Crow
So the following lost...er forgotten city is from old Panama. It is not an ancient lost city by a rather modern one in the terms of ancient lost....er...Forgotten cities go.
Can you imagine being the possible first person to conclusively locate the remains of the first European city in South America, Founded by Balboa discover of the Pacific ocean?
It is not lost native American city of the Maya or Incas or any other indigenous peoples. But the first Establish European city on the mainland of South America.
In September 1510, the first permanent European settlement, Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien on the Americas mainland was founded. Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Martin de Enciso agreed on the site near the mouth of the Tarena River on the Atlantic. Balboa maneuvered and was appointed Mayor on the first official cabildo abierto, (in English translation meaning municipal council) held on the mainland. On August 28, 1513, the Santa María de La Antigua del Darién mission was erected with Fray Juan de Quevedo as the first Catholic Bishop in the continental Americas.
It has been claim this early settlement obtained gold of the local native population though trade and by force so much that the natives lost patience with the Spaniards and when Santa María la Antigua del Darién was abandoned in 1519 and in 1524 was attacked and burned by the indigenous people.
in 1519 the settlement of old Panama began. Strange that I say old because that too was destroyed by Henry Morgan in 1671and abandoned in favor of the Present Panama City we have today
Balboa in the following document mentions the first settlement...
Since 1524 the first Spanish settlement of mainland South America has been largely Forgotten. Yet later maps gave tantalizing images of the site.
Perhaps a wonderful adventure awaits for the willing explorer to dare?
But before any would be explorer pack his or her backs on should realize others have gone before and some have claimed to have located the site?
More importantly it is in what we call the forbidden zone near the borders of Columbia where Narcotics smugglers travel through the Forrest transporting drugs.
If ya can handle all those dangers in mosquito infested swamps and have a little bit of a death wish you may just make the discovery of a life time.
Crow
