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Caparra Archaeological Site
Caparra is an archaeological site in the municipality of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. It was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1994. The site contains the remains of the first Spanish capital of the island, settled in 1508 and abandoned in 1521. It represents the oldest known European settlements on United States territory.〔
The site is on the grounds of the Museum of the Conquest and Colonization of Puerto Rico (Museo de la Conquista y Colonizaciòn), which features artifacts from the site and other archaeological sites in Puerto Rico.
==History==
In 1508, Juan Ponce de León founded the original Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico at Caparra (named after the province of Cáceres, Spain, the birthplace of then-governor of Spain's Caribbean territories Nicolás de Ovando),〔"Guaynabo -- Encyclopædia Britannica" (with history of Puerto Rico),''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2006, ''Britannica.com'' webpage:(EB-Guaynabo-Puerto-Rico ):names: Caparra, the first Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico (1508).〕 which today is known as the Pueblo Viejo sector of Guaynabo, just to the west of the present San Juan metropolitan area. A year later, the settlement was moved to a site then called Puerto Rico, Spanish for "rich port" or "good port", after its similar geographical features to the island of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Historic places in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands )〕 In 1521, the newer settlement was given its formal name, ''San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico'', in honor of John the Baptist, following the tradition of christening the town with both its formal name and the name which Christopher Columbus had originally given the island.
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