The Spanish Colonize Jamestown

What if Spain and not England had Colonize and settled in Jamestown?

How would that have changed History? How would the world have been different today?? Would they have eventfully colonize New York, North Carolina, Maryland, etc,?

Would The Americans have gained Independence a lot sooner or no?
 
But by 1607, the Spanish already had thriving, bountiful colonies in Mexico, Peru, Cuba ,etc. so what would have motivated them to send folks to a swampy, buggy spot hundred of miles north of even its most northern outpost of St. Augustine [which itself was barely functional at this time]? I'm not saying it couldn't have happened but I'd like to consider what kind of motivation.
 
Yeah, the most likely result of a Spanish colonization of Jamestown is that it gets abandoned a few years later. It's a terrible spot for a colony (note that it was eventually abandoned by the English OTL), and doesn't really have any particularly attractive natural resources that couldn't be gotten more easily elsewhere in the Spanish colonies.

The only group that might settle there and stay would be missionaries, but that's not exactly a thriving colony.
 
The Spanish were not going to colonize Jamestown, they might try and then quickly leave but Jamestown was not going to be the Spanish choice of they moved into Virginia. The problem is that to do that the Spanish have to make a concentrated effort on North American colonization. Texas was the frontier and it was just a loose network of presides and missions.
 
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