 Cartagena, Colombia

The city of Cartagena ( , also ), known in the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (), is a city and major port on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region.Founded in 1533, city's strategic location between the Magdalena and Sinú Rivers gave it easy access to the interior of New Granada and made it a main port for trade between Spain and its overseas empire, establishing its importance by the early 1540s.