The second administrator of the settlement in Panama was known as Castilla del Oro, whose name was Pedro de Avila. He grew to be famous as " Pedrarias the Cruel," and finally accused Balboa with disloyalty to his country. Soon Balboa was captured, moved to Pedrarias, and put to death. In two years in 1519 Pedrarias made his mind up to transfer his capital from the dangerous Darién to a rural community on the Pacific shore about four thousand metres east of Panama. The Indian tribes named the settlement Panama, that denotes "full of fish."Just in this time, Nombre de Dios, a destroyed early village, was inhabited again and till the beginning of the seventeenth century functioned as the Caribbean seaport for trans-isthmian transferring. A track famous as the Camino Real, connected Panama and Nombre de Dios. Down this track, gold bars from Peru were transported by the mules to the galleons belonging to Spain on the Atlantic shore. The rising weight of the isthmus for importing treasure and the holdup and hardships caused by the Camino Real motivated examination prearranged by the Spanish King in the 20th and 30th of 16th century to determine the viability of creating a canal. The plan was at last fulfilled by Philip II who decided in the following way: if God had wished for a canal at that place, He would have constructed one. Pedrarias's governing proved a dreadful failure. Many hundreds of Spaniards expired of sickness and hunger in their silk clothes, at the same time as lots of Indians were deprived, enslaved, and murdered. Many of them died from European infections to ones they didn’t have natural resistance. After the immoral deeds of "Pedro the Cruel", the majority of the Indians escape to distant areas to stay away from the Spaniards. The directives for colonial running proposed by the Spanish king's congress of the Indies declared that the Indian tribes were to be defended and became Christians. However only few managers were run by the gentle spirit of those directives.
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