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Martín Fernández de Enciso (c. 1470 - 1528) was a navigator and geographer who was instrumental in colonising the Isthmus of Darien. Fernandez de Enciso founded a village near the Cabo de la Vela with the name Nuestra Señora Santa María de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela, the first settlement in the
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Martín Fernández de Enciso (c. 1470 - 1528) was a navigator and geographer who was instrumental in colonising the Isthmus of Darien. Fernandez de Enciso founded a village near the Cabo de la Vela with the name Nuestra Señora Santa María de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela, the first settlement in the Guajira Peninsula
Guajira Peninsula

Guajira Peninsula is a peninsula in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela in the Caribbean sea. It is the northernmost peninsula in South America and has an area of 25,000 km? extending from the Manaure Bay in the Caribbean sea to the Calabazo Ensenada in the Gulf of Venezuela ....
. Due to constant attacks from the indigenous and pirates the village was moved to present-day Riohacha
Riohacha

Riohacha, Rio Hacha or Rio de la Hacha , is a city and municipality in the northern Caribbean region of Colombia by the mouth of the Rancher?a River and the Caribbean sea, capital city of the Departments of Colombia of La Guajira Department....
 in 1544.