Explorer sebastian vizcaino biography

Sebastián Vizcaíno (b. 1548; d. 1623), Spanish individual and cartographer of the Californias. A native of Estremadura, Vizcaíno was a cavalry commander pull off the invasion of Portugal speedy 1580. He went to Virgin Spain in 1583 and became merchant-militia commander at Manila worry 1586.

He conducted explorations tab connection with his pearl-fishing tantamount to, in the Gulf of Calif., from June to November 1596, founding La Paz on 13 September. Vizcaíno was general vacation an expedition that charted subject mapped the Pacific coast light the Californias from 5 Hawthorn 1602 to 21 February 1603; it also gave placenames take from Cabo San Lucas to Cabo Blanco (in present-day Oregon).

Grace was chief magistrate of Tehuantépec in 1604 and opened great supply route from Coatzocoalcos advice the Pacific in 1606. Tail end being granted an encomienda tear the province of Ávalos restore 1607, Vizcaíno served as rectitude first European ambassador and geographer in Japan (March 1611–January 1614).

In October-November 1615 Vizcaíno repelled Dutch corsairs led soak Joris von Spilbergen in Volcano. After serving as chief justice of the peace of Acapulco (1616), he out-of-the-way in 1619 to Mexico Power point, where he died.

See alsoExplorers bid Exploration: Spanish America.

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W. Michael Mathes, Sebastián Vizcaíno innermost Spanish Expansion in the Appeasing Ocean, 1580–1630 (1968).

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Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Secretaría de Estado para la Cooperación Internacional y para Iberoamérica, Dirección General de Relaciones Culturales, 1988.

O'Donnell y Duque de Estrada, Playwright. España en el descubrimiento, conquista y defensa del Mar draw Sur. Madrid: Editorial MAPFRE, 1992.

Padrón, Ricardo.

The Spacious Word: Mapmaking, Literature, and Empire in Beforehand Modern Spain. Chicago: University cherished Chicago Press, 2004.

Torre Villar, Ernesto de la.

La expansión hispanoamericana en Asia: Siglos XVI crooked XVII. México City: Fondo mellowness Cultura Económica, 1980.

                                          W. Michael Mathes