System+of+colombia+in+colonization

Spanish explorers made the first exploration of the Caribbean littoral in 1499 led by [|Rodrigo de Bastidas]. [|Christopher Columbus] navigated near the Caribbean in 1502. In 1508, [|Vasco Nuñez de Balboa] started the conquest of the territory through the region of Urabá. In 1513, he was the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean which he called //Mar del Sur// (or "Sea of the South") and which in fact would bring the Spaniards to [|Peru] and [|Chile]. The territory's main population was made up of hundreds of tribes of the [|Chibchan] and [|Carib], currently known as the Caribbean people, whom the [|Spaniards] conquered through warfare and alliances, while resulting disease such as [|smallpox], and the conquest and [|ethnic cleansing] itself caused a demographic reduction among the indigenous.[|[24]] In the sixteenth century, [|Europeans] began to bring slaves from Africa.

Daniel Salcedo