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Spain Army. Rank. Captain. Captain Gaspar de Portolá y Rovira (January 1, 1716 – October 10, 1786) was a Spanish Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of the Californias from 1767 to 1770. Born in Catalonia into an aristocratic family, he is best known for leading the Portolá expedition into California ...
Gaspar de Portolá, 1st Governor of the Californias. Don Pío Pico, last Governor of Alta California. Below is a list of the governors of early California (1769–1850), before its admission as the 31st U.S. state. First explored by Gaspar de Portolá, with colonies established at San Diego and Monterey, California was a remote, sparsely ...
The Portolá expedition was a Spanish voyage of exploration in 1769–1770 that was the first recorded European exploration of the interior of the present-day California. It was led by Gaspar de Portolá, governor of Las Californias, the Spanish colonial province that included California, Baja California, and other parts of present-day Mexico ...
Juan Crespí. Cenotaph of Saint Junípero Serra in the Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Carmel-by-the-Sea (1924); Fr. Juan Crespí, who predeceased Serra, stands at the head, praying over him. Juan Crespí ( Catalan: Joan Crespí; 1 March 1721 – 1 January 1782) was a Franciscan missionary and explorer of Las Californias. [1]
Statue of Gaspar de Portolá in Pacifica, California, near the expedition's November 1 camp. This timeline of the Portolá expedition tracks the progress during 1769 and 1770 of the first European exploration-by-land of north-western coastal areas in what became Las Californias, a province of Spanish colonial New Spain.
Warring Park. / 34.41667°N 118.79111°W / 34.41667; -118.79111. Warring Park is a California Historical Landmark as it is the site that Portolà expedition found the Chumash people group known as the Piru Indian tribe August 11, 1769. This site is in the current town of Piru, California in Ventura County. The site became California ...
1932 [3] Designated SDHL. February 29, 1968 [4] El Presidio Real de San Diego ( Royal Presidio of San Diego) is a historic fort in San Diego, California. It was established on May 14, 1769, by Gaspar de Portolá, leader of the first European land exploration of Alta California —at that time an unexplored northwestern frontier area of New Spain.
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