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Del Junco's father-in-law, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, is known as the first founder of a European settlement on the American east coast. Map by Diego Ribero, 1539. The conquest expeditions of Juan del Junco commenced in 1526, when he embarked on a ship leaving Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
Juan de San Martín Gonzalo Suárez Rendón Juan del Junco Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano Antonio de Lebrija Lázaro Fonte Gonzalo Macías Juan Maldonado Juan de Céspedes; Hernán Pérez de Quesada (1539–1541) Martín Galeano Lázaro Fonte; Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1569–1572) Gonzalo Macías Juan Maldonado
A land party under De Quesada, with Hernán Pérez de Quesada (his brother), Juan San Martín, Juan del Junco (as second in command) Lázaro Fonte and Sergio Bustillo, struck south from Santa Marta, crossed the Cesar River, and arrived at Tamalameque on the Magdalena River.
Hernán Venegas Carrillo was a member of the main expedition from the Caribbean coastal city of Santa Marta into the heart of the Colombian Andes, shown in green. Hernán Venegas Carrillo embarked on a ship sailing from Seville, Spain to the New World, probably in 1533, in the company of Juan del Junco. [7]
Rodrigo del Junco was baptized in the Roman Catholic church of Santa Maria de Junco in Ribadesella. He had one brother, Juan del Junco. Rodrigo del Junco attained the rank of captain in the Spanish Army and before 1550, served Philip II of Spain as an agent of the Kingdom of Naples, and later became a factor in Florida.
Pedro Ruiz Corredor was one of the soldiers in the expedition along the green route from Santa Marta into the Muisca Confederation. Pedro Ruíz Corredor (d. after 1601) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca.
Map of the Bogotá River, Tequendama is situated on the right bank between Soacha and Tequendama Falls. During the time before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, the central highlands of the Colombian Andes (Altiplano Cundiboyacense) were populated first by prehistorical indigenous groups, then by people from the Herrera Period, and finally by the Muisca.
The work gives a detailed account of the colonization of the Caribbean and the territories in present-day Colombia and Venezuela.It describes the settlement companies and foundation of cities as well as vivid depictions of indigenous cultures, such as the Muisca, and natural history, making this text an important early chronicle of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.