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Alonso de Ojeda
Oil Portrait of Alonso de Ojeda, located at the Colombian Academy of History, Bogotá.
Born
c. 1466
Torrejoncillo del Rey, Castile
Died
c. 1515
Santo Domingo, Spanish West Indies
Nationality
Spanish
Occupation
Explorer
Known for
Naming Venezuela, first European to visit Lake Maracaibo, founder of Santa Cruz, Venezuela (La Guairita)
Alonso de Ojeda (Spanish pronunciation:[aˈlonsoðeoˈxeða]; c. 1466 – c. 1515) was a Spanish explorer, governor and conquistador. He travelled through modern-day Guyana, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Curaçao, Aruba and Colombia, at times with Amerigo Vespucci and Juan de la Cosa. He is famous for having named Venezuela, which he explored during his first two expeditions, for having been the first European to visit Guyana, Curaçao, Colombia, and Lake Maracaibo, and later for founding Santa Cruz (La Guairita).
AlonsodeOjeda (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈlonsoðe oˈxeða]; c. 1466 – c. 1515) was a Spanish explorer, governor and conquistador. He travelled through...
Indies. In 1499, he served as the chief pilot in the expedition of AlonsodeOjeda to the coasts of South America. Upon his return to Andalusia, he drew...
fact. Ciudad Ojeda was named in honor of AlonsodeOjeda, the Spaniard who was the first European to discover Lake Maracaibo. Ciudad Ojeda is medium-sized...
ordered by the Spanish governor of Santo Domingo, Nicolás de Ovando, and carried out by AlonsodeOjeda during a native celebration that was held in the village...
Colombian soil, that of AlonsodeOjeda. Vespucci, as part of a Portuguese expedition, went east and south from the Orinoco and DeOjeda with three ships went...
The Essequibo River (Spanish: Río Esequibo; originally called by AlonsodeOjeda; Río Dulce) is the largest river in Guyana, and the largest river between...
burned alive. AlonsodeOjeda himself gave the sermon. The Inquisition then grew rapidly. The Plaza de San Francisco was the site of the 'autos de fé'. By 1492...
in a voyage to the western world with Columbus's associates AlonsodeOjeda and Juan de la Cosa. Columbus referred to the West Indies as the Indias Occidentales...
forces, commanded by Christopher Columbus, Bartholomew Columbus and AlonsodeOjeda, with the help of indigenous people led by Guacanagaríx. The battle...
long before the Spanish expeditions reached the Americas. In 1498, AlonsodeOjeda sailed around the peninsula of La Guajira, but the first European to...
se carecía de instrumentos jurídicos apropiados para caracterizar este tipo de delito. " Friar AlonsoDeOjeda: this is not AlonsodeOjeda, Spanish navigator...
bellicose attitudes. AlonsodeOjeda (who had sailed with Columbus) reached the Guajira Peninsula in 1499. Spanish explorers, led by Rodrigo de Bastidas, made...
Nevada de Santa Marta in present-day Magdalena, Cesar and La Guajira departments. The territory was first sighted by Spanish explorer AlonsodeOjeda in 1499...
conquistadors and explorers were AlonsodeOjeda, who landed first at Colombian soil and founded the first settlement Santa Cruz, Rodrigo de Bastidas, who founded...
from Spain to the New World with AlonsodeOjeda on an expedition to Urabá. Pizarro became a participant in Ojeda's failed colony, commanding the remnants...
was first set foot upon by AlonsodeOjeda. Between 1529 and the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), the name "Isla de Oruba" was used for the island...
Vergil completes De inventoribus rerum, the first modern history of inventions. August 24 – Lake Maracaibo is discovered, by AlonsodeOjeda and Amerigo Vespucci...
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, and its northern regions were explored by Rodrigo de Bastidas, AlonsodeOjeda, Juan de la Cosa, Pedro de Heredia and others...
Vespucci joined an expedition licensed by Spain and led by AlonsodeOjeda as fleet commander and Juan de la Cosa as chief navigator. Their intention was to explore...
explorer AlonsodeOjeda arrived on the coast of northern Colombia (Cabo de la Vela). In 1501 Rodrigo de Bastidas crossed the coast between Cartagena de Indias...
Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire when these islands were first colonized by AlonsodeOjeda in 1499. The occupants of this region were known as Caquetíos by the...
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