When the Spaniard Pedro de Sarmiento arrived on the Strait of Magellan in 1584, it was not for a Patagonia vacation. Instead, he disembarked 300 colonists at Punta Santa Ana to found the Ciudad del Rey don Felipe which, unfortunately, lasted only a few years before most of them died from a variety of causes including starvation, leading to the name Puerto de Hambre (Port Famine).