“Landing to The Americas”
- 11 September 1511 –
Santa Maria reached the American continent that morning, on the morning of September 11, 1511, exactly 1 year after setting sail from the Port of Lisbon on the European continent. The place where Santa Maria anchored was off the coast of Tulum city, an ancient Mayan settlement on the western edge of the Cayman Islands, where the natives still live. After a long civil war between the natives, Tulum was a small coastal city engaged in fishing, which was co-built and lived with some Inca natives who emigrated here and established a city on the coast here, and the Mayans who later emigrated here.
Cancun, the first major Mayan city Bruno wanted to reach, was located about 150 km north of here. But instead of near Cancun, they set foot on land f
