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Nueva Vizcaya (New Biscay, Basque: Bizkai Berria) was the first province in the north of New Spain to be explored and settled by the Spanish. It consisted mostly of the area which is today the states of Chihuahua and Durango and the southwest of Coahuila in Mexico as well as parts of Texas in the United States .
Historical territorial claims of Spain in the present State of New Mexico: Nueva Vizcaya, 1562–1821; Santa Fe de Nuevo México, 1598–1821 Treaty of Córdoba of 1821; Historical territorial claims of France in the present State of New Mexico: Louisiane, 1682–1764 Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762
Pursued through New Mexico, he was arrested and taken back to Mexico City. On July 12, 1598, Don Juan de Oñate Salazar established the New Spain colony of Santa Fe de Nuevo Méjico at the new village of San Juan de los Caballeros adjacent to the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo at the confluence of the Río Bravo (Rio Grande) and the Río Chama.
1527–1543 Province of Yucatán, subordinated to Nueva España (see Mexico). 1543–1549 Subordinated to the Kingdom of Guatemala (autonomous part of the Viceroyalty). 1543–1560 Part of Captaincy of Gracias (Yucatán, Chiapas, Tabasco, Panama and Central America). 1549–1550 Subordinated to Nueva España. 1550–1560 Subordinated to Guatemala.
Giacomo Gastaldi's 1548 map of New Spain, Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova. At its greatest extent, the Spanish crown claimed on the mainland of the Americas much of North America south of Canada, that is: all of modern Mexico and Central America except Panama; most of the United States west of the Mississippi River, plus the Floridas.
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (English: The Royal Road of the Interior Land), also known as the Silver Route, [1] was a Spanish 2,560-kilometre-long (1,590 mi) road between Mexico City and San Juan Pueblo (Ohkay Owingeh), New Mexico (in the modern U.S.), that was used from 1598 to 1882.
Santa Barbara is located on a tributary of the Conchos River and was the jumping off spot for several expeditions to New Mexico including Chamuscado and Rodriguez in 1581–1582, Antonio de Espejo in 1582–1583, and Juan de Onate in 1598. [5] On December 17, 1930, the town was designated a city by an act of the legislature.
Fourteen sections of the Camino Real (El Camino Real) in New Mexico were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2018.. Some or all of them are parts of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (transl. Royal Road of the Interior Land), which was an historic 2,560-kilometre-long (1,590 mi) trade route between Mexico City and San Juan Pueblo, from 1598 to 1882.