Poor placement of La Fortaleza and growing fears of British and Dutch privateers instigated the creation of Castillo San Felipe del Morro (El Morro) in 1539. However, its placement is highly critiqued as it provides no protection to the mouth of the port and only protects the new town of San Juan from the south, where the assumption was the attackers were already in the San Juan Bay. After raids by French corsairs along the coast and multiple insurrections against the Spanish by the local Taínos in the following decades, it was decreed that San Juan should be fortified. But it was not until August 1508, when Juan Ponce de León discovered the San Juan Bay, dubbing the area, puerto rico. On November 19, 1493, Puerto Rico was discovered by Europeans, by Italian explorer and colonizer Christopher Columbus on his second voyage westwards.
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