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Statue of Gaspar de Portolá in Pacifica, California, near the expedition's November 1 camp. This timeline of the Portolá expedition tracks the progress during 1769 and 1770 of the first European exploration-by-land of north-western coastal areas in what became Las Californias, a province of Spanish colonial New Spain.
The Portolá expedition was a Spanish voyage of exploration in 1769–1770 that was the first recorded European exploration of the interior of the present-day California. It was led by Gaspar de Portolá , governor of Las Californias , the Spanish colonial province that included California, Baja California , and other parts of present-day ...
NO. 665 PORTOLÁ TRAIL CAMPSITE, 2 – The expedition of Don Gaspar de Portolá from Mexico passed this way en route to Monterey to begin the Spanish colonization of California. With Captain Don Fernando Rivera y Moncada, Lieutenant Don Pedro Fages, Sergeant José Francisco Ortega, and Fathers Juan Crespí and Francisco Gómez, Portolá and his ...
All told, the expedition traveled in the future state of California through the present-day coastal counties of San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, and San Francisco. In 1772, Crespí accompanied Captain Pedro Fages on an exploration of areas to the east of San Francisco Bay.
Despite his conflict with the missionaries, Rivera was chosen to be second-in-command on the Portolá expedition, charged with provisioning the entire expedition. In 1769 , traveling in advance of expedition leader Gaspar de Portolá , Rivera led the first overland party of the Portolá expedition , reaching San Diego , together with missionary ...
Diary of the Portolá Expedition, 1769-70, by Miguel Costansó. Miguel Costansó; Manuel Carpio (1911). Frederick John Teggart (ed.). The Portola Expedition of 1769-1770, Diary of Miguel Costanso. University of California.
After establishing a base at San Diego on July 14, 1769, the expedition headed northbound. The expedition made camp in San Pedro Valley and on November 1, 1769, Portola made Ortega the chief scout and sent him along with other men north to locate San Francisco Bay within three days. The following day on November 2, some of the troops were out ...
Pedro Prat, who was a member of the navy, served as crew doctor, and Hernando Patron was the ship's chaplain. [6] [5] The San Antonio ship arrived in San Diego Bay landing on April 11, 1769, and the San Carlos on April 29. Many crew members on both ships were ill, mostly from scurvy. On the San Carlos most of the crew died, and only two men ...