Juan Perez de Zurita arrived at the capital that lies on which river in 1558?
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Juan Perez de Zurita Juan Pérez de Zurita (1516 - c. 1595) was a Spanish Conquistador, the son of Alonso Díaz de Zurita, native of Cañete de las Torres and Inés Fernández de Córdova. In 1536 he began his military career. In 1548 he was in Granada and in 1550 he embarked to the Indies with his brother Alonso de Zurita. In 1553 went on to the kingdom of Peru. At the beginning of 1557, by order of the Viceroy Hurtado de Mendoza he was sent with an expedition of 700 soldiers under the command of his son García Hurtado de Mendoza, to Chile. From there by order of the new Governor Mendoza, he was sent with a command of 70 men with the position of Lieutenant Governor and Greater Justice for the province of Tucuman, Juries and Diaguitas. He crossed the Andes Mountains and arrived at Santiago del Estero in May 1558.
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Santiago del Estero Santiago del Estero (] , Spanish for "Saint-James-Upon-The-Lagoon") is the capital of Santiago del Estero Province in northern Argentina. It has a population of 244,733 inhabitants, (2001 census ) making it the twelfth largest city in the country, with a surface area of 2,116 km². It lies on the Dulce River and on National Route 9, at a distance of 1,042 km north-northwest from Buenos Aires. Estimated to be 455 years old, Santiago del Estero was the first city founded by Spanish settlers in the territory that is now Argentina. As such, it is nicknamed "Madre de Ciudades" (Mother of Cities). Similarly, it has been officially declared the "mother of cities and cradle of folklore."
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Viceroyalty of Peru The Viceroyalty of Peru (Spanish: "Virreinato del Perú" ) was a Spanish colonial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained most of Spanish-ruled South America, governed from the capital of Lima. The Viceroyalty of Peru was one of the two Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
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Viedma, Río Negro Viedma (] ) is the capital and fourth largest city of the Río Negro Province, in South-Central Argentina. The city has 47,246 inhabitants (2001), and is located on the southern margin of the Negro River, about 30 kilometres off the Atlantic Coast, and 960 km from the city of Buenos Aires on the National Route 3.
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Salado River (Buenos Aires) The Salado River (Spanish: Río Salado , ] ) is a river in northern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It originates at El Chañar Lake on the border with Santa Fe Province, 40 m above mean sea level, and flows generally southeast for 640 km before debouching into Samborombón Bay, part of the Río de la Plata estuary on the Atlantic Ocean. The Salado's mouth is about 170 km south of the city of Buenos Aires.
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Juan de Guzmán Don Juan de Guzmán Itztolinqui (reigned 1526–1569) was a post-Conquest "tlatoani" (ruler) of the "altepetl" (ethnic state) of Coyoacán in the Valley of Mexico.
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Fort Tolpán Fort Tolpán was built in 1657, by order of governor Pedro Porter Casanate by captain Alonso de Cordova y Figueroa on the Tolpán or Trolpán River. The Tolpán River was the name at that time for what is now the lower part of the Renaico River and then the Vergara River from the confluence with the Renaico until where it empties into the Bio Bio River. Tolpán or Trolpán is a contraction of the Mapudungun "thol", "in front", and of "pagui", "lion", meaning "in front of lion". Located at the confluence of the Renaico and Vergara Rivers, captain Cordova y Figueroa used the fort to operate against the Mapuche lands round about during the Mapuche Insurrection of 1655 but it was abandoned a few years later.
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Capital Department, Córdoba Capital Department is a department of Córdoba Province in Argentina.
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Valdivia Province Valdivia Province (Spanish: "Provincia de Valdivia" ; ] ) is one of two provinces of the southern Chilean region of Los Ríos (XIV). The provincial capital is Valdivia. Located in the province are two important rivers, the Calle-Calle / Valdivia River and the Cruces River.It is part of Northern Patagonia and its wild virgin forest embrace the Patagonian Cordillera following the river Calle Calle down to the Pacific Ocean. It is known in Patagonia the term "Bosque Valdiviano" referring to the primitive forest of Valdivia with its native trees. These forests are present in some parts of Northern Patagonia, both in Chile and Argentina.
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Alonso García de Ramón Alonso García de Ramón (c. 1552 – August 5, 1610) was a Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile: first temporarily from July 1600 to February 1601, and then from March 1605 to August 1610. He was born in Cuenca, Spain in 1552.
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Manadero The Manadero (Spanish: "Río del Manadero" ) is a river of the Province of Guadalajara, Spain. A tributary of the Bornova River, it flows for 7 km . Its source is at Portillo in the Sierra de Pela mountains.
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Lake Texcoco Lake Texcoco (Spanish: "Lago de Texcoco" ) was a natural lake within the Anáhuac or Valley of Mexico. Lake Texcoco is best known as where the Aztecs built the city of Tenochtitlan, which was located on an island within the lake. After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, efforts to control flooding by the Spanish led to most of the lake being drained. The entire lake basin is now almost completely occupied by Mexico City, the capital of the present-day nation of Mexico.
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Quilmes Quilmes (] ) is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina , on the coast of the Rio de la Plata on the south east of the Greater Buenos Aires. It is the capital of the borough Quilmes ("Partido de Quilmes"), and has a population of 230,810. It is located 17 km south of the capital of Buenos Aires, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
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La Jalca District La Jalca is a district of the Chachapoyas Province in the Amazonas Region, Peru. Its capital is La Jalca, also known as "Jalca", "Jalca Grande" or "La Jalca Grande". It was the first Spanish foundation of the region. The current city of Chachapoyas was established here. Founded in 1538 as "San Juan de la Frontera de los Chachapoyas" ("Saint John of the Frontier of the Chachapoyas") Chachapoyas was later moved to its present location.
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Guajataca River The Rio Guajataca is a river on the island of Puerto Rico. It is located in the northwest coast of the island. It flows from the south and drains into the Atlantic Ocean. The name was given by the original inhabitants prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus.
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Juan de Salmerón Juan de Salmerón was a Spanish colonial official New Spain, and an "oidor" (judge) of the Second Audiencia, which governed the colony from January 10, 1531 until April 16, 1534. On the latter date, the government was turned over to Antonio de Mendoza, the first viceroy. Along with Fray Toribio de Benavente Motolinia he built the first European settlement at Puebla, Puebla.
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Tacna Tacna is a city in southern Peru and the regional capital of the Tacna Region. A very commercially active city, it is located only 35 km north of the border with Arica y Parinacota Region from Chile, inland from the Pacific Ocean and in the valley of the Caplina River. It is Peru's tenth most populous city.
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Vientiane Vientiane ( ; ] ; Lao: ວຽງຈັນ , "Viang chan", ] ) is the capital and largest city of Laos, on the banks of the Mekong River near the border with Thailand. Vientiane became the capital in 1563 due to fears of a Burmese invasion but was later looted then razed to the ground in 1827 by the Siamese (Thai). Vientiane was the administrative capital during French rule and, due to economic growth in recent times, is now the economic center of Laos.
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Santiago de Compostela commonly known as Santiago ( , ] , ] ), is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain.
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San Luis, Argentina San Luis is the capital city of San Luis Province in the Cuyo region of Argentina. It is also the seat of the Juan Martín de Pueyrredón Department.
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Alcalá de Henares Alcalá de Henares (] ), meaning "Citadel on the river Henares", in Arabic قلعة النار, is a Spanish city located 35 km northeast of the country's capital, Madrid. It stands out for its rich archaeology and was one of the first bishoprics founded in Spain. Locally, it is generally known simply as "Alcalá", but "de Henares" is appended when needed to differentiate it from a dozen Spanish cities sharing the name Alcalá (from the Arabic word "al-qal'a القلعة" for fortification or citadel). The Latin name, "Complutum", is sometimes used. The city is the capital of its namesake region, Comarca de Alcalá. Its historical centre is one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.
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Juan de Oñate Juan de Oñate y Salazar (1550–1626) was a conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and colonial governor of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain. He led early Spanish expeditions to the Great Plains and Lower Colorado River Valley, encountering numerous indigenous tribes in their homelands there. Oñate founded settlements in the province, now in the Southwestern United States.