La Navidad

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La Navidad
La Navidad Location in present-day Haiti
Coordinates: 19°41′26″N 72°00′57″W / 19.69056°N 72.01583°W / 19.69056; -72.01583

La Navidad ("The Nativity", i.e. Christmas) was a Spanish fort that Christopher Columbus and his crew established on the northwest coast of Hispaniola (near what is now Caracol, Nord-Est Department, Haiti) in 1492 from the remains of the Spanish ship the Santa María. La Navidad was the first European colony established in the New World during the Age of Discovery, although it was destroyed by the native Taíno people by the following year.^[1]