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P00020 — Diego de Arana

Diego Diego de Arana

Nationality: Spanish
Professions: sailor on Columbus's first voyage, governor of La Navidad, the first documented Spanish settlement in the New World
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Alternative names

Diego di Arana
Diego di Arana

Biography

As a sailor, de Arana accompanied Columbus on his first voyage into the New World, where he became governor of the first documented Spanish settlement, La Navidad. In La Navidad, de Arana was killed by Indigenous people.

Life events

Diego de Arana is born · 1468–?
Diego de Arana dies · ?–1493

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