This model was built at the Museo Maritimo de Barcelona, Spain, under the supervision of museum director Jose Maria Martinez-Hidalgo y Teran, who published a book on the Santa Maria in 1964. New livestock, plants, diseases, and beliefs unsettled centuries-old communities and ecosystems, changing and destroying the lives of millions. What was a triumph for Spain became a catastrophe for native peoples. Waves of conquerors and colonists-both free and enslaved-followed.

Columbus made three more voyages to the western hemisphere between 14. Although they were already inhabited, he claimed them for Spain. Instead of Asia, Columbus had landed in the Caribbean islands on his first voyage. Fortunately for Columbus, he was able to return to Spain on the Niña. The ship’s timbers were salvaged and used to build a small fort on shore. On Christmas Day 1492, the Santa Maria ran aground on a reef off Hispaniola and was declared a total loss. The fleet went on to explore the north coasts of the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola (now Haiti). Nine weeks after the little fleet left Spain, land was sighted in the Caribbean on 12 October 1492, but exactly which island Columbus’s crew first spotted remains disputed. The Santa Maria and Columbus’s other fleet members the Niña and the Pinta were older ships used for coastal trading rather than vessels designed for ocean crossings. Measuring around 70 feet in length, it carried a crew of 40 men. The three-masted vessel Santa Maria was the largest of Columbus’s expeditionary vessels and his flagship. Before his voyages, Chinese and Indian luxuries for European markets were transported over the long and hazardous overland route through Arabia. Desde que fue declarada fiesta local oficial en 1974, se celebra anualmente.

12 Desde all se encamin a su puerto de origen, Palos. In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed a small fleet of three small ships west from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean, hoping to find a shorter route to the riches of Asia. La Pinta, separada de la Nia donde viajaba Coln en el viaje de vuelta, fue la primera de la expedicin en llegar a la pennsula ibrica ya que hacia el 28 de febrero 11 de 1493 alcanz Bayona, en Galicia.

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