[1] Diego arrived Santo Domingo in April 1502, with Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres' flotilla.
[2] In 1506, Nicuesa was given the job of governing Costa Rica, but ran aground off the coast of Panama.
In 1508, Diego de Nicuesa received a land grant at Veragua from Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Spanish monarch.
[2]: 95, 134–135 He became founder and governor of Castilla de Oro, in what is now Panama, one of the first two Spanish settlements on the American mainland.
The colony suffered from hunger, hostile natives, and illness, and was ultimately saved by the arrival of Colmenares, a companion who was coming after with supplies.