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Andrés de Urdaneta (1508 [1] – June 3, 1568) was a maritime explorer for the Spanish Empire of Basque heritage, who became an Augustinian friar. At the age of seventeen, he formed part of the Loaísa expedition to the Spice Islands where he spent more than eight years. Around 1540 he settled in New Spain and became an Augustinian friar in 1552.
Rafael Urdaneta was born in Maracaibo, Captaincy General of Venezuela to a prominent family of Spanish descent on October 24, 1788. He was a son of the marriage between Miguel Jerónimo de Urdaneta y Troconis and María Alejandrina de Farías. He began his elementary education in Maracaibo, and his secondary education in Caracas. Prior to the ...
Andrés de Urdaneta (1498–1568), Basque Spanish explorer; Ángel Alfonso Bravo Urdaneta (born 1942), Venezuelan baseball player; Betty Urdaneta, Venezuelan First Lady, 1979–1984; Gabriel Urdaneta (born 1976), Venezuelan football player; Isabel Sánchez de Urdaneta, Venezuelan stateswoman and feminist; Lino Urdaneta (born 1979), Venezuelan ...
Luis Urdaneta Farías (Maracaibo, October 24, 1768 — Panama, August 27, 1831) was a Venezuelan soldier and revolutionary who participated in several military campaigns of the Spanish American Wars of Independence. Initially part of the troops loyal to the Spanish Empire, he switched sides during the conflict.
Urdaneta City was founded on January 8, 1858, by Pangasinenses and Ilocanos who sought greater ties and unity. The city was named after Father Andrés de Urdaneta, a famous aide of Miguel Lopez De Legazpi, who was a soldier, navigator, cosmographer, and evangelist. Father Urdaneta played a significant role in the colonization of the Philippines ...
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Cúa (founded in 1690) is a small city capital of the Urdaneta Municipality, located in the Miranda State (Estado Miranda) in the north of Venezuela with an altitude of 490 m. Cúa is noted for warm and clear weather, with year-round sunshine and 60 days of rainfall annually, and an average temperature that range from 18 °C to 28 °C, but with ...
Rafael Urdaneta Faria (1788–1845) September 4, 1830 May 2, 1831 Son-in-law of María Ignacia París Ricaurte Joaquin Paris Ricaurte (1795–1868) [ 8 ] April 1, 1855 April 1, 1856