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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.
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]
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.
Porto Bello (Caribbean), a fictional British colony in the Long John Silver film and The Adventures of Long John Silver TV series Portobello (novel) , a 2008 novel by Ruth Rendell Portobello Books A publishing house founded in 2005 by Sigrid Rausing , a Granta Books imprint after Rausing's 2006 purchase of Granta
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 ...
Portobello College was a private institution established in 1989 and located mainly in Portobello House. It was firstly taken over by the Institute of Education (under owner Raymond Kearns) and then in 2009 by the Dublin Business School (owned by Kaplan, Inc., a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company).
Portobello Central, which became a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) on 8 July 2021, [21] said that it expects the building to re-open in April 2022. [22] On 10 November 2022, the Finance and Resources Committee of the City of Edinburgh Council agreed to offer Portobello Central SCIO a 25 Year, fully repairing, lease at £1 ...
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]