A ranar 24 ga Satumba, 1493, Christopher Columbus ya tashi a kan tafiya ta biyu tare da jiragen ruwa 17 da sojoji 1,200 zuwa 1,500 daga Cádiz. A ranar 19 ga Nuwamba, 1493, ya sauka a tsibirin, ya kira shi San Juan Bautista don girmama Saint John Baptist. An kafa mulkin mallaka na farko na Turai, Caparra, a ranar 8 ga Agusta, 1508 da Juan Ponce de León, mai kula da Columbus, wanda Taíno Cacique Agüeybaná ya gaishe shi kuma wanda daga baya ya zama gwamnan farko na tsibirin. Ponce de Leon ya shiga cikin kisan kiyashi na 1503 a Hispaniola (Jamhuriyar Dominican na yanzu). A shekara ta 1508, Sarkin Ponce de Leon ya zaɓa ta Sarautar Spain don cin nasara da kuma jagorancin bautar da Taíno Indians don ayyukan hakar ma'adinai. A shekara ta gaba, an fara mulkin mallaka a cikin tsibirin, wanda ake kira San Juan Bautista don girmama Saint John Baptist. A ranar 15 ga Agusta, 1508, Juan Ponce de León, wani jami'in soja a karkashin Columbus, wanda aka
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