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Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez - English
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Spanish conquistador and discoverer of California, b. Portugal. In 1520 he landed in Mexico with Pánfilo de Narváez and joined in the conquests of Mexico and Guatemala. Accompanying Pedro de Alvarado up the west coast of Mexico, he assumed command of the expedition and continued the voyage after Alvarado's death.

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Discoverers Web: Cabrillo - English
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The descent of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (also known under his Portuguese name João Rodrigues Cabrilho) is not entirely clear. Most believe that he was born in Portugal, but lived most of his life in the Spanish New World colonies. Others believe that he was born Spanish. He had already joined a few voyages of discovery (he had come to Mexico with Narvaez, shifted alliance to Cortes, helped the founding of the city of Oaxaca, and joined Alvarado in his mesoamerican conquests), and had become wealthy through goldmining in Guatemala, when in 1542 Antonio de Mendoza, the viceroy of New Spain (Mexico), asked him to explore the northern limits of New Spain's westcoast.

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Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez - English
URL: http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0809739.html

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Spanish conquistador and discoverer of California, b. Portugal. In 1520 he landed in Mexico with Pánfilo de Narváez and joined in the conquests of Mexico and Guatemala. Accompanying Pedro de Alvarado up the west coast of Mexico, he assumed command of the expedition and continued the voyage after Alvarado's death.

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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo--A Voyage of Discovery - English
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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo led the first European expedition to explore what is now the west coast of the United States. Cabrillo departed from the port of Navidad, Mexico, on June 27, 1542. Three months later he arrived at "a very good enclosed port." That port is known today as San Diego bay. Historians believe he anchored his flagship, the San Salvador, on Point Loma's east shore near Cabrillo National Monument.

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Discoverers Web: Cabrillo - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/cabrillo.html

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The descent of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (also known under his Portuguese name João Rodrigues Cabrilho) is not entirely clear. Most believe that he was born in Portugal, but lived most of his life in the Spanish New World colonies. Others believe that he was born Spanish. He had already joined a few voyages of discovery (he had come to Mexico with Narvaez, shifted alliance to Cortes, helped the founding of the city of Oaxaca, and joined Alvarado in his mesoamerican conquests), and had become wealthy through goldmining in Guatemala, when in 1542 Antonio de Mendoza, the viceroy of New Spain (Mexico), asked him to explore the northern limits of New Spain's westcoast.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Estevan Cabrillo - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03128b.htm

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A Portugese in the naval service of Spain, date and place of birth unknown; died on the island of San Bernardo, 3 Jan., 1543. In 1541 Pedro de Alvarado gathered a fleet of twelve vessels on the coast of Western Mexico (Navidad) for an expedition to the Moluccas. Alvarado was soon after killed in the assault on the rock of Nochiztlan (Jalisco), defended by hostile Indians.

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