Nombre de Dios, Colón

9.5838888888889 - 79.466111111111Koordinaten: 9 ° 35 'N, 79 ° 28 ' W

Nombre de Dios ( Spanish for " name of God") is a city on the Atlantic coast of the Central American state of Panama near the mouth of the Río Chagres.

Founded in 1510 as a Spanish colony of Diego de Nicuesa, Nombre de Dios was a major port for the Spanish conquerors fleet. 1573 Francis Drake plundered with a motley crew of the Spanish Silver Train near the located in swampy area and not to be fastened city. The metal arrived at with the help of a complex transport chain from small ships and mules in the city, from where it was shipped to Spain.

Nombre de Dios was in the Central American Isthmus, the last port of shipment on the Atlantic Ocean for the silver trains of the Spaniards, who had especially the silver ore Cerro Rico in Potosi, Bolivia exploited. The Spaniards had mined the metal and won, then transported each in annual trains to a Pacific port, northward shipped along the Pacific coast tions Panama and transported on land across the Isthmus of Panama, to enable Nombre de Dios from the last step, the Atlantic Transport by ship to make Spain. Military Logistic Nombre de Dios was a weak point of the Spanish colonial infrastructure for silver recovery, the Drake had been able to take advantage of.

In the 17th century the place malade favor Puerto Bello was abandoned. He is now back as a small city.

The location and Francis Drake's death are described in the work of summarized by Peter Miller diary of seaman Henry Hare Beck, gas Paran or the last ride of Francis Drake.

• Place in Panama
• Colón Province