# La Isabela is founded in 1494 as a dated town-occupation on Hispaniola

Date: 1494

## The fact

In 1494 La Isabela was founded as [Columbus](/people/christopher-columbus)'s town-occupation on Hispaniola. It sickened and failed. Later digs are not 1494. Christopher Columbus's documented role is: He founded a town that sickened and failed. Labour and hunger sit in later reports.

## Context

Sickness is in the reports. Sharing the town with unnamed settlers and Taíno neighbours is required. The setting of La Isabela is founded in 1494 as a dated town-occupation on Hispaniola is the public file around 1494-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Columbus, La Isabela at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Cambridge studies neighbourhood on La Isabela at https://www.cambridge.org/core/ (Cambridge University Press). Official carrier: Britannica — Columbus, La Isabela (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Cambridge studies neighbourhood on La Isabela (https://www.cambridge.org/core/; Cambridge University Press).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Columbus, La Isabela (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from La Isabela is founded in 1494 as a dated town-occupation on Hispaniola on 1494-01-01. A failed colonial town is a humanitarian path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of La Isabela is founded in 1494 as a dated town-occupation on Hispaniola under 1494-01-01 for Christopher Columbus. Established: a sourced public record of La Isabela is founded in 1494 as a dated town-occupation on Hispaniola under 1494-01-01.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat later archaeology as 1494 autograph. Do not treat UNESCO as his masonry. Mixed effects of La Isabela is founded in 1494 as a dated town-occupation on Hispaniola are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of La Isabela is founded in 1494 as a dated town-occupation on Hispaniola. Naming Christopher Columbus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1494-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Christopher Columbus: https://factrail.ai/people/christopher-columbus

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/col-isabela-1494