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List of conquistadors

Index List of conquistadors

The following is a list of conquistadors. [1]

106 relations: Aleixo Garcia, Alejandro de la Fuente, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Alonso de Alvarado, Alonso de Cáceres, Alonso de Ojeda, Ambrosius Ehinger, Antonio Díaz de Cardoso, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Baltasar Maldonado, Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano, Bartolomé de las Casas, Bartolomé Ruiz, Beltrán de Cetina, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Christopher Columbus, Conquistador, Cristóbal de Olid, Diego de Almagro, Diego de Losada, Diego de Mazariegos, Diego de Montemayor, Diego de Nicuesa, Diego de Ordaz, Diego García de Paredes (conquistador), Diego Miruelo, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Domingo Martínez de Irala, Encomienda, Estêvão Gomes, Francisco "Chamuscado" Sánchez, Francisco de Bobadilla, Francisco de Montejo, Francisco de Orellana, Francisco de Ulloa, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua), Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador), Francisco Mendoza, Francisco Pizarro, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, García López de Cárdenas, Gaspar de Rodas, Georg von Speyer, Gil González Dávila, Gonzalo de Sandoval, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo Macías, Gonzalo Pizarro, Gonzalo Suárez Rendón, Gutierre de Miranda, ..., Hernando de Alarcón, Hernando de Soto, Hernando Pizarro, Hernán Cortés, Hernán Pérez de Quesada, Hernán Venegas Carrillo, Jorge Robledo (conquistador), Juan Díaz de Solís, Juan de Ampudia, Juan de Ayolas, Juan de Carvajal, Juan de Céspedes Ruiz, Juan de Grijalva, Juan de la Cámara, Juan de la Cosa, Juan de Oñate, Juan de Salcedo, Juan de Sanct Martín, Juan Pizarro (conquistador), Juan Ponce de León, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Juan Rodríguez Freyle, List of conquistadors in Colombia, List of explorers, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, Luis Fajardo de Córdoba, Luis Lanchero, Martín de Goiti, Martín de Ursúa, Martín Fernández de Enciso, Melchor Díaz, Miguel Holguín y Figueroa, Miguel López de Legazpi, Nikolaus Federmann, Nuño de Guzmán, Ortún Velázquez de Velasco, Pascual de Andagoya, Pánfilo de Narváez, Pedro Arias Dávila, Pedro Cieza de León, Pedro de Alvarado, Pedro de Heredia, Pedro de Mendoza, Pedro de Ursúa, Pedro de Valdivia, Pedro Fernández de Lugo, Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela (conquistador), Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro Menéndez Márquez, Philipp von Hutten, Rodrigo de Bastidas, Rodrigo Orgóñez, Sebastián de Belalcázar, Spanish colonization of the Americas, Vasco Núñez de Balboa. Expand index (56 more) »

Aleixo Garcia

Aleixo Garcia, also known in Spanish as Alejo García (d. 1525 Paraguay) was a Portuguese explorer and conquistador who explored the Rio de la Plata in service to Spain, and later Paraguay and Bolivia.

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Alejandro de la Fuente

Alejandro de la Fuente is Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History at Harvard University.

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Alonso Álvarez de Pineda

Alonso Álvarez de Pineda (Aldeacentenera, 1494-2018) was a Spanish explorer and cartographer who was first documented in Texas history.

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Alonso de Alvarado

Alonso de Alvarado Montaya González de Cevallos y Miranda (1508–1555) was a Spanish conquistador and knight of the Order of Santiago.

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Alonso de Cáceres

Alonso de Cáceres y Retes (Alcántara, Cáceres, late fifteenth century - ?) was a Spanish conquistador and governor-captain of Santa Marta, who traveled extensively throughout the Americas from Mexico, south through Central America, and as far as Peru.

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Alonso de Ojeda

Alonso de Ojeda (Torrejoncillo del Rey, Cuenca-1468 (some sources state 1466); Santo Domingo-1515) was a Spanish navigator, governor and conquistador.

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Ambrosius Ehinger

Ambrosius Ehinger, also (Ambrosio Alfínger in Spanish) Dalfinger, Thalfinger, (ca. 1500 in Thalfingen near Ulm – 31 May 1533 near Chinácota Colombia) was a German conquistador and the first governor of the Welser concession, also known as “Little Venice” (Klein-Venedig), in New Granada, now Venezuela and Colombia.

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Antonio Díaz de Cardoso

Antonio Díaz de Cardoso (?, Santa Comba, Portugal - ?, ?) was a Portuguese conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca people.

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, 1488/1490/1492"Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez (1492?-1559?)." American Eras. Vol. 1: Early American Civilizations and Exploration to 1600. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 50-51. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 10 Dec. 2014.Seville, 1557/1558/1559/1560"Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2014. Web. 08 Dec. 2014.) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.

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Baltasar Maldonado

Baltasar Maldonado, also written as Baltazar Maldonado, - Banco de la República (?, Salamanca, Castile - 1552, Bogotá, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador who first served under Sebastian de Belalcázar in the conquest of Quito and Peru, the foundations of Cali and Popayán, and later in the army of Hernán Pérez de Quesada in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca.

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Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano

Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano (1510, Villafranca de los Barros, Extremadura, Castile - after 1583, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador who took part in the expedition of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

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Bartolomé de las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas (1484 – 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar.

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Bartolomé Ruiz

Bartolomé Ruiz (c. 1482 in Moguer, Spain – c. 1532 in Cajamarca, Peru) was a Spanish conquistador.

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Beltrán de Cetina

Beltrán de Cetina y del Castillo (Alcalá de Henares, 1521 - Mérida de Yucatán, 1600?) was one of the original conquistadors and founders of Mérida in the modern Mexican state of Yucatán.

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1496 – 1584) was a Spanish conquistador, who participated as a soldier in the conquest of Mexico under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events.

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (before 31 October 145120 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer.

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Conquistador

Conquistadors (from Spanish or Portuguese conquistadores "conquerors") is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.

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Cristóbal de Olid

Cristóbal de Olid (1487–1524) was a Spanish adventurer, conquistador and rebel who played a part in the conquest of Mexico and Honduras.

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Diego de Almagro

Diego de Almagro, (– July 8, 1538), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Spanish conquistador and a companion.

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Diego de Losada

Diego de Lozada (1511 – 1569) was a Spanish conquistador and the founder of Santiago de León de Caracas, the current capital of Venezuela.

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Diego de Mazariegos

Diego Mazariegos y Porres (? - 1536) was a Spanish conquistador.

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Diego de Montemayor

Diego de Montemayor (1530 – 1610) was a Spanish conquistador, explorer, officer, and the governor of Nuevo Reino de León.

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Diego de Nicuesa

Diego de Nicuesa (died 1511) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer.

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Diego de Ordaz

Diego de Ordaz (also Diego de Ordás; 1480 in Castroverde de Campos, Zamora province, Spain – 1532 in Venezuela) was a Spanish explorer and soldier.

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Diego García de Paredes (conquistador)

Diego García de Paredes y Vargas (1506, Trujillo, Spain – 1563, Catia, Province of Venezuela, Spanish Empire) was a maestre de campo and a Spanish conquistador who participated in, among other things, the Battle of Cajamarca.

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Diego Miruelo

Diego Miruelo, was an explorer and pilot who explored Florida's west coast in 1516.

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Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar

Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465 in Cuéllar, Spain – c. June 12, 1524 in Santiago de Cuba) was a Spanish conquistador.

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Domingo Martínez de Irala

Domingo Martínez de Irala (c. 1509 Bergara, Gipuzkoa – c. 1556 Asunción, Paraguay) was a Spanish Basque conquistador.

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Encomienda

Encomienda was a labor system in Spain and its empire.

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Estêvão Gomes

Estêvão Gomes, also known in the Spanish versions of his name as Estevan Gómez or Esteban Gómez (Porto, Kingdom of Portugal, c. 1483 - Paraguay River, 1538), was a Portuguese cartographer and explorer.

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Francisco "Chamuscado" Sánchez

Due to the absence of records, Francisco Sánchez was born in 1512 possibly in an area not far from Huelva, Spain.

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Francisco de Bobadilla

Francisco Fernández de Bobadilla (around 1450 - 11 July 1502) was a Spanish conquistador and colonial administrator.

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Francisco de Montejo

Francisco de Montejo y Álvarez (c. 1479 in Salamanca – c. 1553 in Spain) was a Spanish conquistador in Mexico and Central America.

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Francisco de Orellana

Francisco de Orellana (1511 – November 1546) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador.

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Francisco de Ulloa

Francisco de Ulloa (died 1540) was a Spanish explorer who explored the west coast of present-day Mexico under the commission of Hernán Cortés.

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Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua)

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1475 ? - 1526) is usually reputed as the founder of Nicaragua, and in fact he founded two important Nicaraguan cities, Granada and León.

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Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador)

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (died 1517) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.

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Francisco Mendoza

Francisco Juan "Panchito" Mendoza Martínez (born April 29, 1985 in El Salto, Jalisco) is a former Mexican footballer who played for Delfines F.C..

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Francisco Pizarro

Francisco Pizarro González (– 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire.

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Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján (1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.

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García López de Cárdenas

García López de Cárdenas y Figueroa was a Spanish conquistador who was the first European to see the Grand Canyon.

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Gaspar de Rodas

Gaspar de Rodas (1518–1607) was a Spanish administrator in the area that now comprises the present-day departments of Antioquia, Caldas, Quindío and Risaralda, in what is now Colombia.

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Georg von Speyer

Georg von Speyer (1500, Speyer, Holy Roman Empire – 11 June 1540, Coro, Venezuela) was a German conquistador in New Granada, now Venezuela and Colombia.

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Gil González Dávila

Gil González Dávila or Gil González de Ávila was a Spanish Conquistador and the first European to arrive in present-day Nicaragua.

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Gonzalo de Sandoval

Gonzalo de Sandoval (1497, Medellín, Spain – late in 1528, Palos de la Frontera, Spain) was a Spanish conquistador in New Spain (Mexico)Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, and briefly co-governor of the colony while Hernán Cortés was away from the capital (March 2, 1527 to August 22, 1527).

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Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as De Quezada and Ximénez, (1496 – other sources state 1506 or 1509Graham (1922) Suesca, 16 February 1579) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in northern South America, territories currently known as Colombia. He explored the northern part of South America. As a well-educated lawyer he was one of the intellectuals of the Spanish conquest. He was an effective organizer and leader, designed the first legislation for the government of the area, and was its historian. After 1569 he undertook explorations toward the east, searching for the elusive El Dorado, but returned to New Granada in 1573. He has been suggested as a possible model for Cervantes' Don Quixote.

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Gonzalo Macías

Gonzalo Macías (1509, Calamonte, Extremadura, Castile – ?, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the expedition from Santa Marta into the Muisca Confederation that was led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada from 1536 to 1538.

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Gonzalo Pizarro

Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso (1510 – April 10, 1548) was a Spanish conquistador and younger paternal half-brother of Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of the Inca Empire.

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Gonzalo Suárez Rendón

Gonzalo Suárez Rendón (1503, Málaga, Castile – 1590 (or 1583), Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador, known as the founder of the capital of Boyacá; Tunja.

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Gutierre de Miranda

Gutierre de Miranda was interim governor of Spanish Florida in the late 16th century.

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Hernando de Alarcón

Hernando de Alarcón (born 1500) was a Spanish explorer and navigator of the 16th century, noted for having led an early expedition to the Baja California Peninsula, during which he became one of the first Europeans to ascend the Colorado River from its mouth and perhaps the first to reach Alta California.

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Hernando de Soto

Hernando de Soto (1495 – May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first Spanish and European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas).

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Hernando Pizarro

Hernando Pizarro y de Vargas (born between 1478 and 1508, died 1578) was a Spanish conquistador and one of the Pizarro brothers who ruled over Peru.

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Hernán Cortés

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.

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Hernán Pérez de Quesada

Hernán Pérez de Quesada, sometimes spelled as De Quezada, (~1500 – 1544) was a Spanish conquistador.

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Hernán Venegas Carrillo

Hernán Venegas Carrillo Manosalvas was born in (Córdoba 1513 and died on 2 February 1583 at Santa Fe de Bogotá, Venegas Carrillo was a Spanish conquistadorfor who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca and Panche people in the New Kingdom of Granada, present-day Colombia. Venegas Carrillo was mayor of Santa Fe de Bogotá two terms; in 1542 and from 1543 to 1544.

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Jorge Robledo (conquistador)

Jorge Robledo (1500, Úbeda, Jaén, Spain – 5 October, 1546, La Merced, Caldas, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador.

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Juan Díaz de Solís

Juan Díaz de Solís (1470 – 20 January 1516) was a 16th-century navigator and explorer.

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Juan de Ampudia

Captain Juan de Ampudia (died 1541) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador.

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Juan de Ayolas

Juan de Ayolas (died c. 1537) was a conquistador born in Briviesca who explored the watershed of the Río de la Plata for the Spanish Crown.

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Juan de Carvajal

Juan de Carvajal was a Spanish conquistador and one of the first Governors of the Venezuela Province.

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Juan de Céspedes Ruiz

Juan (Francisco) de Céspedes Ruiz (1501 or 1505Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.69 in Argamasilla de Calatrava, Castile – 1573 or 1576 in Bogotá, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador who is known as the founder of the town of Pasca, Cundinamarca, in the south of the Bogotá savanna, Colombia.

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Juan de Grijalva

Juan de Grijalva (born around 1489 in Cuéllar, Crown of Castille - 21 January 1527 in Nicaragua) was a Spanish conquistador, and relation of Diego Velázquez.

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Juan de la Cámara

Juan Gómez de la Cámara (1525–1602) was a Spanish conquistador and an hidalgo.

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Juan de la Cosa

Juan de la Cosa (c. 1450 – 28 February 1510) was a Spanish navigator and cartographer, known for designing the earliest European world map that incorporated the territories of the Americas that were discovered in the 15th century.

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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.

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Juan de Salcedo

Juan de Salcedo (1549 – March 11, 1576) was a Spanish conquistador.

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Juan de Sanct Martín

Juan de Sanct Martín, also known as Juan de San Martín, was a Spanish conquistador.

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Juan Pizarro (conquistador)

Juan Pizarro y Alonso (born c. 1511 in Trujillo; died July 1536) was a Spanish conquistador who accompanied his brothers Francisco, Gonzalo and Hernando Pizarro for the conquest of Peru in 1532.

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Juan Ponce de León

Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain in 1474.

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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (Portuguese:João Rodrigues Cabrilho) (born 1499, died January 3, 1543) was a maritime navigator, known for exploring the West Coast of North America on behalf of the Spanish Empire.

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Juan Rodríguez Freyle

Juan Rodríguez Freyle, also written as Freile, (Bogotá, New Kingdom of Granada, 25 April 1566 - Bogotá, 1642) was an early writer in the New Kingdom of Granada, the Spanish colonial territory of what today is Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.

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List of conquistadors in Colombia

This is a list of conquistadors who were active in the conquest of terrains that presently belong to Colombia.

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List of explorers

The following is a list of explorers.

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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón

Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (c. 1475, probably Castile, Spain – 18 October 1526) was a Spanish explorer who in 1526 established the short-lived San Miguel de Guadalupe colony, the first European attempt at a settlement in what is now the continental United States.

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Luis de Moscoso Alvarado

Luis de Moscoso Alvarado (1505 – 1551) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador.

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Luis Fajardo de Córdoba

Don Luis Fajardo de Córdoba was a Spanish Conquistador, military and nobleman.

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Luis Lanchero

Luis Lanchero, also known as Luis Lancheros (?, Castile - 1562, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador and the founder of the town of Muzo, Boyacá, the most important emerald settlement in Colombia.

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Martín de Goiti

Martín de Goiti (c. 1534 - 1575) was one of the soldiers who accompanied the Spanish colonization of the East Indies and the Pacific, in 1565.

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Martín de Ursúa

Martín de Ursúa (or Urzúa) y Arizmendi (February 22, 1653 – February 4, 1715), Count of Lizárraga and of Castillo, was a Spanish Basque conquistador in Central America during the late colonial period of New Spain.

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Martín Fernández de Enciso

Martín Fernández de Enciso (c. 1470 – 1528) was a navigator and geographer from Seville, Spain.

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Melchor Díaz

Melchior Díaz was an early Spanish explorer of Western North America who "was a hard worker and skillful organizer and leader.

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Miguel Holguín y Figueroa

Miguel Holguín y Figueroa, also written as Miguel Holguín de Figueroa, (1516, Cáceres, Kindom of Spain - after 1576, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador.

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Miguel López de Legazpi

Miguel López de Legazpi (c. 1502 – August 20, 1572), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo (The Elder), was a Basque-Spanish navigator and governor who established the first Spanish settlement in the East Indies when his expedition crossed the Pacific Ocean from the Viceroyalty of New Spain in modern-day Mexico, arrived in Cebu of the Philippine Islands, 1565.

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Nikolaus Federmann

Nikolaus Federmann (Nicolás de Federmán) (c. 1505, Ulm – February 1542, Valladolid) was a German adventurer and conquistador in the colonies of Venezuela and Colombia.

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Nuño de Guzmán

Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán (c. 14901558) was a Spanish conquistador and colonial administrator in New Spain.

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Ortún Velázquez de Velasco

Ortún Velázquez de Velasco (Cuéllar, Castile – 4November 1584, Pamplona, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador.

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Pascual de Andagoya

Pascual de Andagoya (1495-1548) was a Spanish Basque conquistador.

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Pánfilo de Narváez

Pánfilo de Narváez (147?–1528) was a Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas.

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Pedro Arias Dávila

Pedro Arias de Ávila (c. 1440 - March 6, 1531) (often Pedrarias Dávila) was a Spanish soldier and colonial administrator.

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Pedro Cieza de León

Pedro Cieza de León (Llerena, Spain c. 1520 – Seville, Spain 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru.

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Pedro de Alvarado

Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras (Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, ca. 1485 – Guadalajara, New Spain, 4 July 1541) was a Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala.

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Pedro de Heredia

Pedro de Heredia (Madrid, circa 1505 – Zahara de los Atunes, Cádiz, January 27, 1554) was a Spanish conquistador, founder of the city of Cartagena de Indias and explorer of the northern coast and the interior of present-day Colombia.

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Pedro de Mendoza

Pedro de Mendoza y Luján (c. 1487 – June 23, 1537) was a Spanish conquistador, soldier and explorer, and the first adelantado of New Andalusia.

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Pedro de Ursúa

Pedro de Ursúa (1526 – 1561) was a Spanish conquistador from Baztan in Navarre.

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Pedro de Valdivia

Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva (April 17, 1497 – December 25, 1553) was a Spanish missionary and the first Cardinal of Chile.

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Pedro Fernández de Lugo

Pedro Fernández de Lugo (1475–1536) was the second adelantado of the Canary Islands and governor of Tenerife and La Palma, a title confirmed again by Charles I of Spain, in Barcelona, on August 17, 1519.

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Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela (conquistador)

Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela (?, Córdoba, Andalusia - ?, Córdoba) was a Spanish conquistador who took part in the expedition of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada from 1536 to 1538.

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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574) was a Spanish admiral and explorer from the region of Asturias, Spain, who is remembered for planning the first regular trans-oceanic convoys and for founding St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565.

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Pedro Menéndez Márquez

Pedro Menéndez Márquez (? – 1600) was a Spanish military officer, conquistador, and governor of Spanish Florida.

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Philipp von Hutten

Philipp von Hutten (18 December 1505 – 17 May 1546) was a German adventurer, and an early European explorer of Venezuela.

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Rodrigo de Bastidas

Rodrigo de Bastidas (Triana, Seville, Andalusia, c. 1465 – Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 28 July 1527) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who mapped the northern coast of South America, discovered Panama, and founded the city of Santa Marta.

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Rodrigo Orgóñez

Rodrigo Orgóñez (1490 – 26 April 1538) was Spanish captain under Diego de Almagro.

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Sebastián de Belalcázar

Sebastián de Belalcázar (1479 or 1480, Córdoba – Cartagena, 1551) was a Spanish conquistador.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The overseas expansion under the Crown of Castile was initiated under the royal authority and first accomplished by the Spanish conquistadors.

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conquistadors

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