In the 16th century what as the most important European city on the Pacific coast of the New World? Panama. The ruins are now known as Panama Viejo. The Spanish needed a city here so they could haul Inca wealth across the isthmus and back to the Old World. A pirate attack in 1671 finally did it in, but the new Panama City was built only a few miles away. [2017]
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