You make the home work thanks to put my island on his real place 🇵🇷💪pa que tu lo sepas!😎

I would love to visit that site. I had an aunt that lived in caparra heights for many decades but never mentioned ponce de leons house being there

Lots of comments from people who have no idea of the history of Puerto Rico..not true about being burned down..reason it was moved was too many mosquitos. Gold was up in the mountains. Tainos were not killed..many died from deseases like small pox and measles etc. Most were integrated and mixed..the slaves were few.mostly taken to Cuba abd Dominican Republic to transfer to mainland USA..those left in Puerto Rico were mainly skeleton crews and those remained in coast near beaches..Spanish crews that were left got tired if waiting for ships to return and took to the mountains while the slaves afraid of finding wild animals like in Africa remained close to shore. Puerto Rico being further away from the continent then the other two islands Cuba and Dominican had less slaves since the interest was more in the continent.

It's to believe that the natives dwindled down to 1500. I'm sure you read it somewhere, but I doubt that is accurate, as you can see very indigenous features in Puerto Ricans today. I know that many fled to the mountains, but 1500 Tainos were left? I doubt that very much.

This is wrong. Caparra was just a small community that disappeared in 1519 when people left to move to the islet located to north of it (across the bay). That islet became the city of San Juan 2 years later. As a result, the oldest city in the USA is San Juan, PR.

Also, there were Taino villages that existed before the Spanish settlement, and are today cities in Puerto Rico, to name a few: Caguas (Turabo), Utuado (Otoao), Guanica (Guaynia), Humacao (Makao), etc. By the way, today Caparra is not in San Juan or Bayamon region, it is still part of the city of Guaynabo. About 16 cities existed before the Spanish whites took over Boriken.

The map you show of Caparra in Spain is incorrect. Caparra is an old Roman town in the province of Cáceres which is in the Extremadura Region (West Central Spain). That’s were Ponce de León was from. Your map showed it in Cataluña (Northeastern Spain).

Puerto Rico no es usa.

*Wrong* "Cahokia" is probably the oldest city in North America predating the Spanish by 500 years and did you know that the Indigenous Mississippi people who inhabited this city defeated the Spanish killing all but 2 or three of them as they fled for the gulf of Mexico.

That's not true , The Kahokia culture had cities in what is today the US that predate any Spanish settlement by thousands of years . Pueblo Bonito in Arizona also predates all Spanish settlements .

Not USA,caribbean.our island is not in the federation and we're not anglo saxon descendants.

It was burned down many times by the Tainos.

View beware; there are many inaccuracies in this video. Caparra is the oldest initial settlement in any of the USA's former and present colonies, Puerto Rico being the oldest. In the history and chronicles of Puerto Rico since 1508, there has never been an accurate census of indigenous populations. Many taíno fled to mountainous eastern regions of the island where they held off Spanish incursions for many decades. Others fled to other islands. Of course some of them succumbed to Euro diseases, but in even in the 1755 census demanded by the crown, they simply counted people within short distances of San Juan. There were no checks and balances, so a paltry number was useful to Spain's detractors, even to this day. Huge amounts of gold has always and continues to be an exaggerated claim. The reason why the fable grew legs is because Spanish men were fleeing Puerto Rico when word of Cortez's reports of of what is now Mexico. As a matter of fact, the governor of Puerto Rico declared that Spaniards attempting to leave would be forcibly detained. Yes, it works against our ego, but growing cotton and tobacco was not happening until two centuries later; in the interim it was about producing donkeys, cattle and draft animals for export to other islands. Please do not rely on the words of a casual viewer/visitor.

En Puerto Rico no en USA !

This is true, however the port of Aguada had a small villa (1506) that was burned by Taino uprising (1510) in the Western part of Puerto Rico, all the settlers (men, women and children) of that region were killed, except for one survivor who managed to warn Ponce de Leon, in Caparra. I can visualize the Tainos screaming: "Los blanco no son dioses!" English translation: "The whites are not gods!" At that time , the average Taino slave had a life expectancy of 7 years, under severe brutality.

Correction, Caparra was an Aldea or Hamlet by 1521 not 1508. Secondly, they moved to the islet (known today as "Old San Juan") because of the frequent attacks from Carib Indians and Taino Indians, and due to the mosquitoes as well for better protection. Stop re-writing history with so much Anglo-American bullshit. As far as the ruins, at the site are the remains of his house which is known as "Fuerte de Juan Ponce de Leon that he built in "La Espanola or Dominican Republic" which was more like a typical fortress style of the 15th Century. There's also the Casa Blanca which was been built during his expeditions to "La Florida" for which he was wounded and subcomed to probably from infection and never lived in it but our ancestors did (I am of his descendants.)

There is not Caparra city in USA. I've been in USA almos all my life, i never seen it .🤷

St Augustine in Florida is believed to be the oldest city in U.S.

I don’t know where you read some of this shit but you’re wrong in most of it

This is not the USA !! Puerto Rico Is a common wealth and colony not a state

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Stop it... We are not yours.

Oldest town in the USA? 😂 What about the Amerindians? They settled the land well before the Europeans came here. Why are so many Americans so short-sighted when it comes to recognising the pre-columbus history of the land? Cahokia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia Is by far much older and much bigger settled as far back as 600CE it grew to a population of 15000 by 1100CE.