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Another attraction for members of the wet set is being able to investigate shipwrecks on the ocean bottom — well over 100 vessels are known to have sunk hereabouts since the days of the Spanish galleons.
The town and port saw little action during colonial days and it slumbered quietly, hosting a few lost galleons and pirate ships that happened to stop for repairs or supplies.
Lured by the promise of treasure galleons and stores of ammunition, some pirates worked independently; others, however, were employed by the various European crowns, particularly the British, to help carry on their power struggles in the colonial world.
The nearby El Tesoro (the Treasure) beach is also the subject of local lore — many believe this beach still may hold buried treasure from Spanish galleons, whose crews used the harbor during the 16th century.
Here, the Oriental spices, and silks and exotic cargoes from faraway ports were unloaded from the republic’s ancient galleons.