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An illustration of Henry Morgan's attack on the Castillo de San Jerónimo, Porto Bello in 1669. Portobelo was founded in 1597 by Spanish explorer Francisco Velarde y Mercado [2] and quickly replaced Nombre de Dios as a Caribbean port for Peruvian silver.
A map of Porto Bello from 1700 showing the location of the three castles as well as the town. On 10 July Morgan weighed anchor with his nine vessels and 470 men at Naos, a village twelve miles from Porto Bello in the Bay of Bocas del Torro. From there he sailed along the coast to the port of El Puerto del Ponton, four miles from Porto Bello and ...
The Portobelo District [2] is one of the districts that make up the Colón Province, Panama.It covers an area of 397 km 2, and the latest official estimate of population (for 2019) is 10,581. [3]
Description: Map of north-east coast of Panama from Porto Bello to Nombre de Dios, based on a Spanish map c.1700, acquired Oct 1927 by the Map Division, Library of Congress, G4874.P6A1 17 P5 Vault (see File:MapCirca1700 Bastimentos Portobelo Panama.png
Porto Bello was a 2-story brick farmhouse owned by Lord Dunmore from 1773 to the late 1770s. It is located in central York County on a wooded hill north of Queen's Creek.. In a 1782 map, the building is shown to have five buildings, consisting of a residence, a kitchen, and three other much smaller outbuildings; however, it was written to have up to ten outbuildings while under the ownership ...
Portobello Police Station, by Robert Paterson built as Portobello Town Hall in 1878 and later used as the Police Station Butcher's shop in the High Street. Portobello is a coastal suburb of Edinburgh in eastern central Scotland. It lies 3 miles (5 km) east of the city centre, facing the Firth of Forth, between the suburbs of Joppa and Craigentinny.
In January 1680 during the second sacking of Porto Bello (the first having been done by the British pirate Henry Morgan in 1671), a party led by the English buccaneer and privateer Bartholomew Sharp captured the town of Porto Bello within that harbour, which he held and plundered for two days, the population having taken refuge in the fortress ...
The Portobelo and San Lorenzo fortifications are situated approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) from each other on Panama's Atlantic coast. Portobelo's military structures provided a security cover on the Caribbean part of the Panama harbour whereas the fortifications at San Lorenzo protected the Chagres River at its mouth. [2]