However, this plan had failed. The natives were not welcoming to their host. The natives even burned their own crops that they had harvested and planted just so that the Spanish could not share their goods with them. This ensured that the Spanish could not eat their crops. The Spanish tried with all their might to colonize Veragua, but they failed. In 1562, Juan Vásquez de Coronado was able to take office and was appointed governor of Veragua. Coronado was a caring governor and was also much kinder than the men who took office before him. He did his best to make the natives feel comfortable in their territory, because it was, above all, their land. It was between the 1500s and 1600s that Spanish settlers married and had children with the natives, the children were given the name