Bohio

On the northern coast of Hispaniola near Bohio, Christopher Columbus founded La Isabela during his second voyage at the turn of 1493–94. The settlement included a church, storehouses and a stone house for Columbus. Hunger, disease and a hurricane in 1495 afflicted the colonists, while Taíno people supplied them with food. La Isabela was abandoned by 1500 as the Spanish centre of settlement shifted south.

The later city of Puerto Plata lies nearby.