History of Oceania

How many colonies did Columbus establish in the New World?

Columbus did not actually establish any permanent colonies in the New World. Although he made four trips to the Americas between 1492 and 1502, they were primarily voyages of exploration rather than colonization efforts. It was later explorers, such as Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Juan Ponce de León, who established the first permanent European settlements in the Americas