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His expedition crossed the Animas River near present-day Durango, Colorado (a tributary of the Colorado River), which he may have named. [2] The ore samples he brought back to Santa Fe were among the first recorded discoveries of gold in present-day Colorado, although they created no particular interest at the time.
Antonio de Espejo (c. 1540–1585) was a Spanish explorer who led an expedition, accompanied by Diego Perez de Luxan, into what is now New Mexico and Arizona in 1582–83. [1] [2] The expedition created interest in establishing a Spanish colony among the Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande valley.
Aleixo Garcia, also known in Spanish as Alejo García, (died 1525) was a Portuguese explorer and conquistador in service to Spain. He was a castaway who lived in Brazil and explored Paraguay and Bolivia. On a raiding expedition with a Guaraní army, Garcia and a few colleagues were the first Europeans known to have come into contact with the ...
Juan Pardo was a Spanish explorer who was active in the latter half of the 16th century. He led a Spanish expedition from the Atlantic coast through what is now North and South Carolina and into eastern Tennessee [1] on the orders of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, in an attempt to find an inland route to a silver-producing town in Mexico.
[4] [1] In this place, they discovered the San Pedro Springs and the San Antonio de Padua river, which were named with their modern names. [1] As they progressed on their journey, the group made contact with several indigenous peoples they did not know, particularly with the Yojuanes and their allies, the Simonos and the Tusonibi .
Spanish claims to the region date to the papal bull of 1493, and the Treaty of Tordesillas signed in 1494. In 1513, this claim was reinforced by Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean, when he claimed all lands adjoining this ocean for the Spanish Crown.
In 1527, Hernán Cortés prepared a new expedition to search for the missing fleet of the Loaísa expedition and commissioned his cousin Álvaro to command the new expedition. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] However, the true purpose of the expedition was to find new lands in the South Sea ( Pacific Ocean ) and to bring back spice plants.
The expedition team named almost all water places (rivers, creeks) with their modern names. [ 4 ] [ 8 ] [ 7 ] Thus, Ramón named the San Antonio River after him because he discovered it on Anthony of Padua 's Day (in Spanish: San Antonio de Padua ), [ 14 ] while the Brazos, Little and San Gabriel rivers were originally named Brazos de Dios ...