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Silver Coin Find Pinpoints Doomed Port Famine Colony
A recent archaeological discovery has shed new light on one of the most tragic episodes of Spanish colonization in the Americas. Researchers have unearthed a 440-year-old silver coin that pinpoints the exact location of "Port Famine" (Puerto del Hambre), a doomed Spanish colony established in the Strait of Magellan, according to El Magallanico. The Port Famine coin confirms the site of Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, a settlement founded in 1584 by the Spanish navigator Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, whose inhabitants met a grim fate due to starvation and harsh conditions. This remarkable discovery not only ... (full story)
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