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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
11 – The expedition camped at Blanco (same camp as Oct. 1–6 and Nov. 26). 12–15 – Southeast on the Salinas River (same camps as Sep. 26–29) 16–26 – Leaving the Salinas Valley near today's King City, the expedition retraces its trail through the Santa Lucia Mountains and down the coast to the San Luis Obispo area.
Date: 1927: Source: Original publication: Bolton, Herbert E. "Fray Juan Crespi: Missionary Explorer on the Pacific Coast, 1769-1774", p.127. publisher=HathiTrust ...
In 1769, the expedition led by explorer Gaspar de Portolà reached the Los Angeles area of California overland from Baja California.Accompanying him were two Franciscan Padres, Junípero Serra and Juan Crespí, who recorded the expedition and identified locations for a proposed network of missions, along which the royal highway (El Camino Real) was eventually built.
The Gaspar de Portola expedition in 1769 was the first contact by land to reach Tongva territory, marking the beginning of Spanish colonization. Franciscan padre Junipero Serra accompanied Portola. Within two years of the expedition, Serra had founded four missions, [ 10 ] including Mission San Gabriel , founded in 1771 and rebuilt in 1774, and ...