Which Colombian port city received a Spanish Inquisition tribunal in 1610?

The Colombian port city that received a Spanish Inquisition tribunal in 1610 was Cartagena de Indias.

Cartagena’s tribunal was established to police religious orthodoxy in Spain’s Caribbean possessions. The city was a major Atlantic port, linking the Spanish mainland, the Caribbean, and the wider empire. Its commercial traffic brought merchants, sailors, enslaved people, settlers, and travelers from many backgrounds under inquisitorial scrutiny.

The tribunal dealt with accusations including Protestantism, Judaism, Islam, superstition, bigamy, blasphemy, and other offenses against Catholic discipline. It was one of three permanent Spanish tribunals in the Americas; the others were in Lima and Mexico City, established in the sixteenth century.

The city is often shortened to “Cartagena” in historical tables, but Cartagena de Indias is the precise name and distinguishes it from Cartagena in Spain. The tribunal belonged to the Spanish imperial system, not to a separate Colombian state, since modern Colombia did not yet exist.