It was also a Spanish hereditary domain created in 1537 in the reign of King Charles I in a small section of the territory of Veragua (Gobernación de Veragua, which had been created in 1502 and extended along the Caribbean coasts of present-day Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama as far to the east as the Río Belén).
Additionally, it was a Spanish inherited territory founded in 1537 under King Charles I's rule, encompassing a small part of the Veragua Governorate, which had been established in 1502 and extended along the Caribbean coastlines of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama to the easternmost point of the Río Belén.