What was the first Spanish colony ever found?

Fuerte Navidad. This was the first settlement built by Cristobal Colon in his first voyage to América. On the Christmas Eve of 1.492 one of his ships ( the Santa María ) came ashore and became beached in the North of what was called the Hispaniola island ( in what is today called Haiti ). read more

The first colony was established in Hispaniola (La Española in Spanish, meaning “The Spaniard”) by Christopher Columbus. In 25th December of 1492 his crew started to build a foretress in todays Haiti called Christimas (Navidad) and left a contigent of men to establish a small colony with the natives. read more

On 27 April 1565, the first permanent Spanish settlement in the Philippines was founded by Miguel López de Legazpi and the service of Manila Galleons was inaugurated. The Manila Galleons shipped goods from all over Asia across the Pacific to Acapulco on the coast of Mexico. read more