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Palos de la Frontera[pA´lOs dA lA frOntA´rA] Pronunciation Key, town Huelva prov., SW Spain, in Andalusia, on the Tinto River near its mouth. From its port (now silted up), Columbus sailed on his first voyage of discovery (1492), returning and reembarking in 1493. CortEs landed there in 1528 after his conquest of Mexico. The Franciscan monastery at nearby La RAbida has Columbian mementos.
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