Acla
Sign in to saveAcla was a Spanish colonial town founded by order of the Governor of Castilla de Oro, Pedrarias Dávila, in 1515. It was located on the central coastline of the modern-day Guna Yala, to the northeast of Panama. The town's name means bones of men in the indigenous language. The name comes from the large number of bones strewn about the nearby plains, which supposedly came from the conflicts between two indigenous brothers who fought to become chiefs of the region.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Acla is referenced by 12 other articles, and connects out to Panama, Pacific Ocean and bone.
It is catalogued under topics including 1515 establishments in the Spanish Empire, History of Panama and Populated places established in 1515.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- Gaigirgordub
- Region
- Guna Yala
- Country
- Panamá
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Panama
- Located in
- Guna Yala
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Acla was a Spanish colonial town founded by order of the Governor of Castilla de Oro, Pedrarias Dávila, in 1515. It was located on the central coastline of the modern-day Guna Yala, to the northeast of Panama. The town's name means bones of men in the indigenous language. The name comes from the large number of bones strewn about the nearby plains, which supposedly came from the conflicts between two indigenous brothers who fought to become chiefs of the region.
The town was established principally to be the Caribbean anchor of a trail that was planned to lead to a future town on the Gulf of San Miguel on the Pacific Ocean, which had recently been discovered by Vasco Núñez de Balboa. This town is mostly famous because it was the site of the judgement and decapitation of Núñez de Balboa in 1519 at the hands of Governor Dávila.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Acla” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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