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Portobelo (Modern Spanish: "Puerto Bello" ("beautiful port"), historically in Portuguese: Porto Belo) is a historic port and corregimiento in Portobelo District, Colón Province, Panama. Located on the northern part of the Isthmus of Panama , it is 32 km (20 mi) northeast of the modern port of Colón now at the Atlantic entrance to the Panama ...
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 ] The district capital is the town of Portobelo , the Spanish roadstead on the coast of Panama which replaced the original settlement of Nombre de ...
Over the centuries, Portobelo developed into a strategic Spanish establishment in the New World as it was well-linked with a stone paved road to Panama city. [5] The port's importance as a key transshipment location for the Spanish Conquistadors was to temporarily stack the plundered loot of gold and silver from the Incan mines.
Agaricus bisporus, commonly known as the portobello mushroom; Porto Bello (Caribbean), a fictional British colony in the Long John Silver film and The Adventures of Long John Silver TV series
The Capture of Portobello was a military event during the long ongoing Anglo–Spanish War of 1585-1604, in which an English naval expedition under the command of privateer William Parker (died 1618), of Plymouth, assaulted and took the seaport town of Portobelo at Colon on the eastern / northern coast of Panama / Isthmus of Panama in Central America, from the Spanish, captured some looted ...
Due to a storm, the ship was forced to dock at Portobelo. When the ship was scheduled to depart, a sudden storm set in, preventing the ship to set sail; this happened repeatedly. Attributing this phenomenon to the statue, the superstitious sailors threw the box containing the statue into the sea and thereafter the storm subsided, and the ship ...
Vernon's action was seen by the "Patriots", or pro-war party opposed to Robert Walpole, as just vengeance for Admiral Hosier's disastrous blockade of Porto Bello during 1726–1728, where with a greater force of 20 ships, and Portobelo inadequately defended, government orders forbade him from firing a shot, leaving him and some 4,000 sailors to ...
Henry Morgan's raid on Porto Bello was a military event which took place in the latter half of the Anglo-Spanish war beginning on 10 July 1668. Notable Welsh Buccaneer Henry Morgan led a largely English Privateer force against the heavily fortified town of Porto Bello (now Portobelo in modern Panama).