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DescriptionMap Bastimentos PortoBello Panama.svg	Map of north-east coast of Panama from Porto Bello to Nombre de Dios, based on a Spanish map c.1700, acquired Oct 1927 by the Map Division, Library of Congress, G4874.P6A1 17 P5 Vault (see File:MapCirca1700 Bastimentos Portobelo Panama.png 1700 map showing position of anchorage at Bastimentos marked by inverted anchor, detail from Spanish map c.1700, acquited Oct 1927 by the Map Division, Library of Congress, G4874.P6A1 17 P5 Vault . Showing the probable location of the place (or area) called "Bastimentos" (shown on the map as Isla Grande de Bastimentos (Big Island, now Isla Grande); Isla de Bastimentos Chica (Small Island) and Puerto de Bastimentos (Port Bastimentos) by Christopher Columbus in November 1502 during his 4th Voyage, as recorded by his son Ferdinand, having left the harbour they named Porto Bello: “they put in among islets next to the continent where Nombre de Dios now is and because all these coasts and islets were full of maize they called it Puerto de Bastimentos (Harbour of Provisions)”. In 1508 the inlet or harbour (at Bastimentos) was renamed “w:Nombre de Dios” by the Spanish conquistador and explorer w:Diego de Nicuesa (d.1511) , for the same reason Columbus named Gracias a Dios. (Source: Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, 2 Vols, Boston, 1942, Vol.2, p.354-5[1]). "Bastimentos" was later the place where the British Admiral Francis Hosier anchored his fleet during the disastrous Blockade of Porto Bello in 1726, having been ordered by his government to refrain from attacking the port, which was largely undefended, but to wait for months unoccupied. Several of his letters to the government during this period are dated at "Bastimentos". Thousands of his sailors died here of tropical disease and the bottoms of his ships were eaten by shipworm. The event was felt by the British people as a national humiliation, for which they largely blamed the government. "Isla Bastimentos" as shown on 18th century maps is supposed by Morison (1942) to be today's "Isla Grande" (Columbus on Himself, p.223 (note), By Felipe Fernández-Armesto [2]). The anchorage used by Hosier (and possibly by Columbus) was probably between today's Isla Grande and the mainland, although the anchorage on this coast used by yachts today is at "Linton Bay", between Isla Linton and the mainland.
Date	2020
Source	own work, traced from google maps, using anchor element from File:Aussersihl-blazon.svg by User:Gerhard Bräunlich
Author	Lobsterthermidor (talk) 17:33, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

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current	00:49, 4 November 2020	744 × 422 (544 KB)	Lobsterthermidor	Spelling corrected to: Isla de Monos
	17:28, 3 November 2020	744 × 422 (547 KB)	Lobsterthermidor	Added anchor, and coloured dots, etc
	01:22, 3 November 2020	744 × 422 (545 KB)	Lobsterthermidor	Improved identifying names, per Spanish map c.1700
	20:58, 2 November 2020	744 × 422 (321 KB)	Lobsterthermidor	{{Information \|Description=Map of north-east coast of Panama from Porto Bello to Nombre de Dios, showing the probable location of the place called "Bastimentos" by Christopher Columbus in November 1502 during his 4th Voyage, as recorded by his son Ferdinand: “they put in among islets next to the continent where Nombre de Dios now is and because all these coasts and islets were full of maize they called it Puerto de Bastimentos (Harbour of Provisions)”. In 1508 the inlet or harbour at Bast...