Santa María la Antigua del Darién

Monument to Vasco Núñez de Balboa in Madrid, founder of Santa María la Antigua del Darién

Santa María la Antigua del Darién—turned into Dariena in the Latin of De Orbo Novo<ref>D'Anghiera, Peter Martyr. De Orbo Novo Template:In lang. Trans. Richard Eden as The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and Ilands lately founde in the west Ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne, Template:Nowrap, §3. William Powell (London), 1555.</ref>—was a Spanish colonial town founded in 1510 by Vasco Núñez de Balboa, located in present-day Colombia approximately Template:Convert south of Acandí, within the municipality of Unguía in the Chocó Department. It was the first city founded by conquistadors in mainland America.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> After Pascual de Andagoya, a Spanish-Basque conquistador under the direction of Panama governor Pedrarias Dávila, founded Panama City in 1519,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Santa María la Antigua del Darién was abandoned and in 1524 was attacked and burned by the indigenous people.