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Antonio de Espejo (c. 1540–1585) was a Spanish explorer who led an expedition, accompanied by Diego Perez de Luxan, into what is now New Mexico and Arizona in 1582–83. [1] [2] The expedition created interest in establishing a Spanish colony among the Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande valley.
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Sir Walter Raleigh and some Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French and Portuguese expeditions were looking for the wonderful Guiana empire that gave its name to the present day countries of the Guianas. Several expeditions went in search of these fabulous places, but returned empty-handed, or brought less gold than they had hoped.
Toribio Alonso de Salazar (died 5 September 1526) was a Spanish navigator of Castilian origin, who was the first Westerner to arrive on the Marshall Islands on 21 August 1526. Born in Burgos , de Salazar was part of the Fray García Jofre de Loaísa 's expedition from Spain to the Spice Islands in 1525, the second in history to cross the ...
Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira (or Neyra) (1 October 1542 – 18 October 1595) was a Spanish navigator, explorer, and cartographer, best known for two of the earliest recorded expeditions across the Pacific Ocean in 1567 and 1595.
Aleixo Garcia, also known in Spanish as Alejo García, (died 1525) was a Portuguese explorer and conquistador in service to Spain. He was a castaway who lived in Brazil and explored Paraguay and Bolivia. On a raiding expedition with a Guaraní army, Garcia and a few colleagues were the first Europeans known to have come into contact with the ...
Rediscovered by the Spanish. North, Canada 1574–1631 Henry Hudson: North: 1594–1597 Willem Barents: Siberia and Pacific coast 1649–1641 Ivan Yuryevich Moskvitin: Oceania: 1642–1643 Abel Tasman: Brazil (circumnavigation), Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. Connected the River Plate Basin to the Andes and to the mouth of the Amazon River. 1648 ...
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