COLUMBUS' VOYAGES (FIRST AND SECOND)

FIRST VOYAGE

On August 3rd 1492. Christopher Columbus left from Palos de Moguer with the three ships: the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa María. Three months later on October 12th 1492, he arrived in Mainland. After many problems (The ships got damaged, there was not enough food and mistreatment was a daily occurrence), they got in to an Island, that Columbus called San Salvador , Guanahaní, was the original name given by the natives. Today it is part of the Bahamas.

SECOND VOYAGE

Columbus organized this trip in a very short time. He had now 17 caravels and 1500 men. He departed in September 1493. He explored many places in the Antilles (West Indies), one of those places was Puerto Rico, but he called it San Juan.

When he arrived in La Española he found some of the men he had left, dead. They have died because they did some wrong to the natives. Therefore he founded a new settlement he named La Isabella, in honor to the queen.