Puerto Real's Excavation Site

NALs

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Jan 20, 2003
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A Haitian friend told me tonight that in the 1970's some American and Haitian archeologists discovered and dugged the Spanish town of Puerto Real, which was one of the original 15 towns founded between 1490s-1520. He couldn't tell me how much was excavated, what type of artifacts were extracted, or what happened to those artifacts. Supposedly the Haitian government planned to build a replica of the town next to the excavation site based on the architectural information they could get from the ruins themselves.

My questions are, for whomever might know about this:

Where exactly are the ruins? I know it must be in northern Haiti at some distance east of Cap Haitien.

What happened to the original plan to build a replica?

What happened to the artifacts extracted from the site?

Are there any pending plans to re-initiate the excavations?