La Isabela
La Isabela in Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic was the first stable Spanish settlement and town in the Americas established in late December 1493 to early January 1494.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: historic site in the Dominican Republic
- Also known as: “Castillo de La Isabela” and “El Castillo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Villa Isabela.
Villa Isabela
Town
Villa Isabela is a town in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic. It lies 9 km south of the site of La Isabela, where Christopher Columbus founded a settlement in 1493. Villa Isabela is situated 7 km south of La Isabela.
La Isabela
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: La Isabela (Zona Urbana), La Isabela (D. M.)., Luperón, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
19.88451° or 19° 53′ 4″ northLongitude
-71.0737° or 71° 4′ 25″ westElevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
77FCVWMG+RGOpenStreetMap ID
node 355275256OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“La Isabela” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لا إيزابيلا”
- Azerbaijani: “La İzabela”
- Breton: “La Isabela”
- Catalan: “La Isabela”
- Chinese: “伊莎貝拉”
- Chinese: “伊莎貝拉城”
- Chinese: “伊莎貝拉城堡”
- Croatian: “La Isabela”
- Czech: “La Isabela”
- Dutch: “La Isabela”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لا ايزابيلا”
- Esperanto: “La Isabela”
- Finnish: “La Isabela”
- French: “La Isabela”
- German: “La Isabela”
- Italian: “La Isabela”
- Japanese: “ラ・イサベラ”
- Latvian: “La Isabela”
- Portuguese: “La Isabela”
- Portuguese: “Parque Histórico e Arqueológico Nacional de La Isabela”
- Russian: “Ла-Исабела”
- Serbian: “Isabela”
- Serbian: “La Izabela”
- Serbo-Croatian: “La Isabela”
- Slovenian: “La Isabela”
- Spanish: “La Isabela”
- Spanish: “Parque Nacional Histórico La Isabela”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Ізабела”
- Vietnamese: “La Isabela”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “La Isabela”. Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 4.0.