Cartagena (ˌkɑːrtəˈheɪnəKAR-tə-HAY-nə), known since the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (Spanish: [kaɾtaˈxena ðe ˈindjas] ⓘ), is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean Sea.

Apr 26, 2021 · The city of Cartagena was founded on 1 June 1533 by Spanish commander Pedro de Heredia, who took over an abandoned Amerindian Caribbean village known as Calamarí and started building a settlement of his own.

Cartagena de Indias was founded on 1 June 1533 by Spanish commander Pedro de Heredia, in the former seat of the indigenous Caribbean Calamarí village. Most of Heredia's sailors were from Cartagena, Spain, a city founded by the Phoenicians in 228 BC and also a seaport.

Pedro de Heredia (c. 1484 – 27 January 1554) was a Spanish conquistador, founder of the city of Cartagena de Indias and explorer of the northern coast and the interior of present-day Colombia.

Feb 26, 2025 · Founded in 1533, Cartagena de Indias gained fame after the mid-16th century when great fleets stopped annually to take on gold and other products of northern South America for convoy to Spain. The city became a centre for the Inquisition and a major slave market.

Oct 28, 2018 · Cartagena was officially founded and settled under the Spanish Empire in 1533, by Don Pedro de Heredia and took its name from the Spanish city of Cartagena.

Jul 11, 2018 · Cartagena was founded on June 1, 1533 by Spaniard Pedro de Heredia. He and the other members of his founding party named their newly founded city Cartagena de Poniente (meaning Cartagena in the West). There is some debate about why they chose that name.

Jul 1, 2024 · Established in 1533 by Pedro de Heredia, Cartagena was originally a settlement that became an important trading destination and one of the main Spanish ports on the Caribbean coast.

Don Pedro de Heredia: Spanish Conquistador, and founder of Cartagena. As a young man, son of a rich family in Madrid, six men tried to assassinate him but he was able to defend himself.

Founded in 1533, by Spaniard Don Pedro de Heredia, it was a center of early Spanish settlement in the Americas. It gained fame in the mid-sixteenth century when gold and silver from the mines in New Granada and Peru were exported from there for convoy to Spain.

Nov 25, 2024 · When Spanish conquistador Pedro de Heredia arrived in January 1533, he found the Calamarí settlement abandoned, its inhabitants likely fearing Heredía and his men were there on a slave raid as other Spanish explorers had done before. Heredia was looking for a place to establish a settlement.

Pedro de Heredia and the Founding of Cartagena Heredia gave up on petty politics and refashioned himself as a Conquistador. He petitioned the crown and was granted dominion over a territory that spanned virtually all of modern Colombia and half of Ecuador.

Who Founded Cartagena de Indias? Pedro De Heredia, a Spanish commander, founded Cartagena on June 1, 1553. The commander took over Calamari, an abandoned Amerindian village, and started the city’s rehabilitation. Spanish sailors were the first settlers who arrived from Spain in Cartagena. Those people settled in the place and started a new life.

Founded in 1533 by Pedro de Heredia and named after Cartagena, Spain, it didn’t take long for Cartagena to become the principle Spanish port in the Caribbean and doorway to South America. Cartagena soon became the holding place for the riches the Spanish stole from Indians until galleons would ship the stolen treasure back to Spain.

Feb 21, 2025 · She was sent to Santo Domingo where she was educated as a Spaniard, learned Spanish, and adopted the Catholic faith. She later served as the translator of Pedro de Heredia (c. 1505-1554), the founder of Cartagena, during his conquests in Colombia. Catalina also served as Heredia’s concubine. Her real name is unknown.

It was founded in 1533 by Don Pedro de Heredia, and named after the port of Cartagena in Spain's Murcia region. It was a major centre of early Spanish settlement in the Americas, and continues to be an economic hub as well as a popular tourist destination.

In 1533 Pedro de Heredia founded Cartagena, which became one of the major naval and merchant marine bases of the Spanish empire. Bogotá was founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada in 1538. By the end of 1539 all but one of the major inland colonial cities had…

Cartagena was established in 1533 on the abandoned ruins of an Amerindian Caribbean village by Spanish settlers. The population was just 200 people at the time but thanks to its proximity to the ocean and the Spanish fascination with raw materials from South America, the city quickly became wealthy.

Sep 4, 2023 · In 1851, Colombia abolished slavery, 14 years before the United States of America. The only surviving palenque, is right outside Cartagena, San Basilio de Palenque. It was the first free village in America, dating its founding to 1713.

Sep 25, 2023 · The history of Cartagena can be traced back to the 16th century when it was founded by Spanish conquerors. The city quickly became a strategic port for the Spanish Empire, serving as a vital hub for trade and commerce in the Caribbean region.