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Portobelo (Modern Spanish: "Puerto Bello" ("beautiful port"),
historically in Portuguese:
Porto Belo) is a
historic port and
corregimiento in Portobelo...
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Christ in
Iglesia de San Felipe, a
Roman Catholic parish church located in
Portobelo, Panama. The
statue was
found on the s****s of the town's harbour. Life...
- The
Portobelo District is one of the
districts that make up the Colón Province, Panama. It
covers an area of 397 sq.km, and the
latest official estimate...
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Bastimentos was an island,
anchorage and
harbour near
Portobelo on the north-western
coast of
Panama discovered and
named in
Spanish "Isle and port of...
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battle between a
British naval force aiming to
capture the
settlement of
Portobelo in Panama, and its
Spanish defenders. It took
place during the War of...
- The
fortifications on the
Caribbean Side of Panama:
Portobelo-San
Lorenzo are
military constructions,
built by the
Spanish Empire during the 17th and...
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Atlantic ports of the isthmus:
Nombre de Dios, at first; and, later,
Portobelo. (The dry-season,
overland route—the
Camino Real—connected
Panama City...
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declaring Buenos Aires an open port in the late 18th century. The
capture of
Portobelo in
Panama by
British forces also
fueled the need to
foster commerce via...
- dysentery, a
common disease at the time,
while anc****d off the
coast of
Portobelo where some
Spanish treasure ships had
sought shelter.
Following his death...
- the War of Jenkins' Ear, in 1739 he was
responsible for the
capture of
Portobelo, Panama, seen as
expunging the
failure of
Admiral Hosier there in a previous...
