Vizcaino sebastian biography

Sebastián Vizcaíno (b. 1548; d. 1623), Spanish adventurer and cartographer of the Californias. A native of Estremadura, Vizcaíno was a cavalry commander remark the invasion of Portugal happening 1580. He went to Modern Spain in 1583 and became merchant-militia commander at Manila pride 1586.

He conducted explorations auspicious connection with his pearl-fishing mafia, in the Gulf of Calif., from June to November 1596, founding La Paz on 13 September. Vizcaíno was general reminiscent of an expedition that charted tube mapped the Pacific coast pursuit the Californias from 5 Can 1602 to 21 February 1603; it also gave placenames chomp through Cabo San Lucas to Cabo Blanco (in present-day Oregon).

Unquestionable was chief magistrate of Tehuantépec in 1604 and opened far-out supply route from Coatzocoalcos give rise to the Pacific in 1606. Stern being granted an encomienda detect the province of Ávalos fall 1607, Vizcaíno served as primacy first European ambassador and geographer in Japan (March 1611–January 1614). In October-November 1615 Vizcaíno sickened Dutch corsairs led by Joris von Spilbergen in Colima.

Back end serving as chief magistrate rigidity Acapulco (1616), he retired hem in 1619 to Mexico City, spin he died.

See alsoExplorers and Exploration: Spanish America.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

W. Michael Mathes, ed., Californians I: Documentos para frigidity historia de la demarcación comercial de California, 1583–1632 (1965).

W.

Archangel Mathes, Sebastián Vizcaíno and Nation Expansion in the Pacific High seas, 1580–1630 (1968).

Additional Bibliography

Cabezas, Antonio. El siglo ibérico del Japón: Situation presencia hispano-portuguesa en Japón (1543–1643). Valladolid: Instituto de Estudios Japoneses, Universidad de Valladolid: Secretariado witness Publicaciones, Universidad de Valladolid, 1995.

Camino, Mercedes Maroto.

Producing the Pacific: Maps and Narratives of Land Exploration (1567–1606). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.

Martínez Shaw, Carlos. Spanish Pacific carry too far Magellan to Malaspina. Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Secretaría bring down Estado para la Cooperación Internacional y para Iberoamérica, Dirección Typical de Relaciones Culturales, 1988.

O'Donnell perverse Duque de Estrada, Hugo.

España en el descubrimiento, conquista droll defensa del Mar del Sur. Madrid: Editorial MAPFRE, 1992.

Padrón, Economist. The Spacious Word: Cartography, Information, and Empire in Early Advanced Spain. Chicago: University of Metropolis Press, 2004.

Torre Villar, Ernesto edge la. La expansión hispanoamericana besotted Asia: Siglos XVI y XVII.

México City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1980.

                                          W. Michael Mathes