Colombia, Spain in diplo-row over sunken treasure trove worth an estimated $2 billion
Colombia, Spain in diplo-row over sunken treasure trove worth an estimated $2 billion
Sunday, December 20, 2015
BOGOTA (AFP).- Billions of dollars in gold and silver from an 18th century shipwreck have left Spain and former colony Colombia at odds over who rightfully owns the loot.
The disagreement is over the "San Jose," an treasure ship wreck that Colombia located recently off the coast of Cartagena de Indias, its old Caribbean port city.
The "San Jose" sank in June 1708 near the Islas del Rosario, during combat with British ships attempting to take its cargo, as part of the War of Spanish Succession.
The Spanish galleon was the main ship in a treasure fleet carrying gold and silver -- likely extracted from Spanish colonial mines in Peru and Bolivia -- and other valuables to King Philip V.
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