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The portion of California State Route 1 that runs from Las Cruces in Santa Barbara County north to San Francisco is called the Cabrillo Highway. [55] The Cabrillo Bridge [56] and Cabrillo Freeway (California State Route 163) [57] running through San Diego's Balboa Park are also named for him. There are streets named for him in many cities in ...
Cabrillo National Monument (Spanish: Monumento nacional Cabrillo) is a U.S. national monument at the southern tip of the Point Loma peninsula in San Diego, California.It commemorates the landing of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo at San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542.
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 ...
Cabrillo National Monument recently commemorated the anniversary of the first European to set foot in California. Things didn't go as planned. Column: Cabrillo landed in California 480 years ago.
Whitney organized the first comprehensive survey of California, and the first complete topographic maps of the state were completed under him. Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in California is named after him. The State Mining Bureau was established in 1880, and the position of State Geologist was changed to State Mineralogist.
Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego, California. The first European expedition to explore the upper California coast was led by the explorer and conquistador Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (c. 1499–1543). Cabrillo shipped for Havana as a young man and joined forces with Hernán Cortés in New Spain in about 1520 as a conquistador crossbow man.
San Diego replica of the San Salvador, Cabrillo's flagship. San Salvador was the flagship of explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (João Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese). She was a 100-foot (30 m) full-rigged galleon with 10-foot (3.0 m) draft and capacity of 200 tons. [1] She carried officers, crew, and a priest.
Around 1541, Bolaños was dispatched on a voyage up the west coast of Mexico and Baja California in service of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's expedition. The voyage was commissioned either by Cabrillo himself, or by the Viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, who had also commissioned the Cabrillo expedition. Bolaños embarked from the port of ...