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 By [WAYNE BERNHARDSON](https://blog.australis.com/blogging-patagonia/author/wayne-bernhardson) on Mar 29, 2016 3:38:33 PM

When the Spaniard Pedro de Sarmiento arrived on the [Strait of Magellan](http://www.australis.com/site/en-us/multimedia/galeria-imagenes/#gal3) 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).

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