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Columbus called the port Puerto de la Navidad ("Christmas Port"), the day he landed there. He appointed Diego de Arana, chief constable of the fleet and son of Rodrigo, Pedro Gutiérrez, butler of the Spanish royal dais, and Rodrigo de Escobedo to govern the fortress of 36 men. They included carpenters, calkers, a physician, a tailor, and a gunner.
Diego de Arana (1468 in Cordoba, Spain – 1493 in Haiti) was governor of the first documented Spanish settlement in the New World, at La Navidad. He was a sailor of Castile who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to America, where Arana was killed by natives. Arana is described as a native of Córdoba in the journal of Columbus.
These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals before California became part of the United States of America. [1] Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases.
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Columbus left 39 men on the island, who founded the settlement of La Navidad on 25 December 1492. [52] Relations with the native peoples, initially good, broke down and the settlers were later killed by the Taíno. [53] The sailors carried endemic Eurasian infectious diseases, causing epidemics that killed a large number of native people.
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