Bayano and his comrades have fought their…
1557 CE
Bayano and his comrades have fought their guerrilla war for over five years while building their community.
His forces number between four and twelve hundred Cimarrons (enslaved people who have rebelled and escaped to live freely), depending upon different sources, and set up an autonomous region, or palenque, known as Ronconcholon near modern-day Chepo River, also known as Rio Bayano.
Spanish soldier Pedro de Ursúa, who had traveled at about the age of nineteen to the New World in 1545 and aided in the conquest of the native peoples of what will become New Granada, has become governor of Panama.
He subdues Bayano’s revolt in 1557 by tricking its leader into coming unprepared to a negotiate a truce—then capturing him and sending him back to King Philip II of Spain, where he dies.