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  2. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo - Wikipedia

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    Cabrillo's heir Don Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo de Medrano was the encomendero of Xicalpa, Jocopila and Comitlán, [32] and twice town magistrate of Santiago de Guatemala and owner of a cattle ranch along the road connecting Xicalapa to Miahuatlán. [33] In February 1579 he helped Francisco Díaz Del Castillo as a witness to his testimony. [34]

  3. History of Santa Catalina Island - Wikipedia

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    Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo The first European to set foot on the island was the Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo , who sailed in the name of the Spanish crown. [ 6 ] On October 7, 1542, he claimed the island for Spain and christened it San Salvador after his ship (Catalina has also been identified as one of the many possible burial ...

  4. Gulf of California - Wikipedia

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    The marine expeditions of Fortún Ximénez, [5] Hernán Cortés, [6] Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, [7] Francisco de Ulloa, [8] Hernando de Alarcón, Captain Francisco de Lucenilla, [9] and Sebastián Vizcaíno document its earliest record. [10] Juan de Oñate reached the gulf overland in 1605 by following the Colorado River. [11]

  5. Column: Cabrillo landed in California 480 years ago. People ...

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    Cabrillo National Monument recently commemorated the anniversary of the first European to set foot in California. Things didn't go as planned. Column: Cabrillo landed in California 480 years ago.

  6. Santa Rosa Island (California) - Wikipedia

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    Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's crew visited the island after his death, and found three Chumash villages, containing a total of 40-50 people. They called their island Wima, but George Vancouver listed it as Santa Rosa on his 1792 chart.

  7. Humaliwo - Wikipedia

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    He named the lagoon “Pueblo de las Canoas” (Town of the Canoes), referring to the vast Humaliwo canoes on arrival to the coastline. Cabrillo's expedition to the edge of Mesoamerica ended with his death on Catalina Island in 1543. On February 22, 1776, Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza led an expedition that camped at Malibu Creek. [3]

  8. San Salvador (Cabrillo's ship) - Wikipedia

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    San Diego replica of the San Salvador, Cabrillo's flagship. San Salvador was the flagship of explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (João Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese). She was a 100-foot (30 m) full-rigged galleon with 10-foot (3.0 m) draft and capacity of 200 tons. [1] She carried officers, crew, and a priest.

  9. Maritime history of California - Wikipedia

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    Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego, California. The first European expedition to explore the upper California coast was led by the explorer and conquistador Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (c. 1499–1543). Cabrillo shipped for Havana as a young man and joined forces with Hernán Cortés in New Spain in about 1520 as a conquistador crossbow man.