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Juan de Oñate y Salazar (Spanish: [ˈxwan de oˈɲate] ⓘ; 1550–1626) was a Spanish conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and colonial governor of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain.
Juan de la Cosa was an important early explorer of the Americas and a cartographer responsible for important maps such as the Mappa Mundi of 1500. De la Cosa traveled with Christopher Columbus and helped to navigate his ship, the Santa Maria, to the Americas.
Oct 7, 2017 · The chieftains initially agreed and the first Spanish population was founded in New Mexico, San Gabriel, specifically on August 18th, 1598. There they rebuilt an old abandoned Indian village and spent the winter.
Nov 12, 2017 · On these trips, Juan de la Cosa mapped for the first time the coasts of northeast and north of South America. – With all the information of his travels and that of others, in 1500 he drew up the oldest preserved world map of the American continent (which you can see at the bottom of this entrance).
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Jul 11, 2020 · He left Mexico in 1598 with a long caravan of settlers, missionaries and livestock to establish a colony, to subjugate and Christianize the Indigenous population, and to extract all the riches he...
Juan de la Cosa's work is full of narrative detail, such as the depiction of Saint Christopher at the top of the map: a place usually reserved for an image of the Virgin and Child. Instead,...
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Juan de la Cosa (hwän dā lä kō´sä), c.1460–1510, Spanish navigator. He sailed with Columbus in 1492 (as pilot of the flagship Santa María) and again in 1498.
