Today in 1511, 512 years ago: on the island of Cuba, the "advanced" Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465-1524) founded the village Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa, one of the first towns founded by Spaniards in America. On November 27, 1492, Christopher Columbus had described it as “the most beautiful thing in the world.”

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