 The new governor, Pedro Arias de Avila, who became known as "Pedrarias the Cruel", charged Balboa with treason.In 1517 Balboa was arrested, brought to the court of Pedrarias, and executed.In 1519 Pedrarias moved his capital away from the debilitating climate and unfriendly Indians of the Darién to a fishing village on the Pacific coast (about four kilometers east of the present-day capital).