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Portobelo (formerly
Puerto Bello, also
Porto Belo) is a port city in
Colón Province,
Panama. It is located on the northern part of the
Isthmus at .
Portobelo was founded in 1597.
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) From the
sixteenth to the
eighteenth centuries it was an important silver-exporting port in
New Granada on the
Spanish Main and one of the ports on the route of the
Spanish treasure fleets.
The city was also involved in one of
Captain Henry Morgan's famous adventures. In
1668, Morgan led a fleet of
privateers and 450 men against Portobelo, which, in spite of its good fortifications, he captured and plundered for 14 days, stripping it of nearly all its wealth. This daring endeavour, although successful, also proved particularly brutal as it involved rape, torture, and murder on a grand scale.
On
November 21,
1739, the port was again attacked and captured by a British fleet, commanded this time by Admiral
Edward Vernon during the
War of Jenkins' Ear. The battle demonstrated the vulnerability of Spanish trading practices, and led to a fundamental change in them. The Spanish switched from large fleets calling at few ports to small fleets trading at a wide variety of ports. They also began to travel around Cape Horn to trade on the West coast. Portobelo's economy was severely damaged, and didn't recover until the building of the
Panama Canal.
Today, Portobelo is a sleepy city with a population of fewer than 5,000. It has a deep
natural harbor. In
1980 the ruins of the fortification, along with nearby
Fort San Lorenzo, were declared a
World Heritage Site.
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