Within a few years of La Isabela, Spain's strategy for subjugating the New World took shape.  Urban design, cultural transformation, and conquest set the new course for Spain in the New World.   

Before exploring La Isabela more fully, we take a quick view of En Bas Saline.   En Bas Saline was a Taino village inhabited pre- and post-contact.  

Introduction to La Isabela and the project.  

The Archaeology of La Isabela deepens our understanding of Columbus's second voyage and his attempt to establish a feitoria in the New World.