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Veracruz in Mexico (location map scheme)
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Landmark Americas trade

Veracruz

1519 CE – still standing

First Spanish colonial port in the Americas, gateway for the Manila Galleon trade and primary link between New Spain and Europe

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Veracruz on Wikipedia.

Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1500 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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