Yes.
Spain.
Spain.
Spain.
<APEX> Areas in the South Central, And North America
To try to colonize the area. Spain had several anchorages on the Pacific coast of North America, and these were later raided by British privateers.
Places to colonize and expand their growing empires.
Spain, France and Portugal
Spain acquired a great deal of wealth because the gold and silver were sent to Spain.
Primarily in the Caribbean on islands such as Hispaniola (Dominican Republic) and Cuba. Colonization of the mainland started in the 1500s.
The first country to successfully colonize the Americas was Spain. The first peoples to start colonies in the Americas, if we are to not include the Natives who came from Russia, are the Vikings. Leif Eriksson of Greenland sailed to North America (specifically Canada) and established a colony, which after losing connection to its mother-country, Greenland, dissolved. This Viking colonization of North America occurred over 500 years before Christopher Columbus' birth.
In the 16th century settlers from England, France, Scotland, Sweden, Spain and the Netherlands began to colonize North America.
Spain and Portugal were assigned colonial rights by the Treaty of Tordesillas, which gave Spain the Caribbean and North America, but allowed Portugal to colonize Brazil farther to the east.