What are the journys columbus took to america

On august 3, 1492 Columbus sailed from palos, Spain. With three small ships, the Santa Maria. Then in October 1493 columbus sailed to Cadiz. Then in 1498 was forced to transport convicts as colonists, because of the bad reports on conditions in Hispaniola and because the novelty of the New World was wearing off. He sailed still farther south and made his landfall on Trinidad. He sailed across the mouth of the Orinoco River in present Venezuela. Then in 1502 columbus finally gathered thereestablish his reputation. If he could sail past the islands and far enough west, he hoped he might still find lands answering to the description of Asia or Japan. He struck the coast of Honduras in Central America and coasted southward along an inhospitable shore, suffering terrible hardships, until he reached the Gulf of Darién.

River valleys were good places for hunting and fishing.