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    Alonso de Ojeda (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈlonso ðe oˈxeða]; c. 1466 – c. 1515) was a Spanish explorer, governor and conquistador. He travelled through...
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    Indies. In 1499, he served as the chief pilot in the expedition of Alonso de Ojeda to the coasts of South America. Upon his return to Andalusia, he drew...
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    (a settlement by Alonso de Ojeda the previous year at San Sebastián de Urabá had already been abandoned). Balboa was born in Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain...
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    fact. Ciudad Ojeda was named in honor of Alonso de Ojeda, the Spaniard who was the first European to discover Lake Maracaibo. Ciudad Ojeda is medium-sized...
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    In 1499, an expedition licensed by Spain and led by Alonso de Ojeda as fleet commander and Juan de la Cosa as chief navigator set sail to explore the coast...
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  • ordered by the Spanish governor of Santo Domingo, Nicolás de Ovando, and carried out by Alonso de Ojeda during a native celebration that was held in the village...
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  • cartographer Alonso de Ercilla (1533–1594), Spanish soldier and poet Alonso de Ojeda (1466-1515), Spanish explorer, governor and conquistador Alonso de Solís...
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    burned alive. Alonso de Ojeda himself gave the sermon. The Inquisition then grew rapidly. The Plaza de San Francisco was the site of the 'autos de fé'. By 1492...
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    The Essequibo River (Spanish: Río Esequibo; originally called by Alonso de Ojeda; Río Dulce) is the largest river in Guyana, and the largest river between...
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    forces, commanded by Christopher Columbus, Bartholomew Columbus and Alonso de Ojeda, with the help of indigenous people led by Guacanagaríx. The battle...
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    bellicose attitudes. Alonso de Ojeda (who had sailed with Columbus) reached the Guajira Peninsula in 1499. Spanish explorers, led by Rodrigo de Bastidas, made...
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    Archived 2007-11-14 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved September 19, 2007 Alonso de Ojeda Yaureibo y Cacimar Archived 2007-12-05 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved...
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    in a voyage to the western world with Columbus's associates Alonso de Ojeda and Juan de la Cosa. Columbus referred to the West Indies as the Indias Occidentales...
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    Caquetio Amerindians; the island becoming a Spanish colony after Alonso de Ojeda's 1499 expedition. Though labelled "the useless island" due to its poor...
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    Colombian soil, that of Alonso de Ojeda. Vespucci, as part of a Portuguese expedition, went east and south from the Orinoco and De Ojeda with three ships went...
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    from Spain to the New World with Alonso de Ojeda on an expedition to Urabá. Pizarro became a participant in Ojeda's failed colony, commanding the remnants...
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  • se carecía de instrumentos jurídicos apropiados para caracterizar este tipo de delito. " Friar Alonso De Ojeda: this is not Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish navigator...
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  • Colombia. This fortified settlement was founded on 20 January 1510 by Alonso de Ojeda on the eastern coast of the Gulf of Urabá, in what is today Necoclí...
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    long before the Spanish expeditions reached the Americas. In 1498, Alonso de Ojeda sailed around the peninsula of La Guajira, but the first European to...
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    Vespucci joined an expedition licensed by Spain and led by Alonso de Ojeda as fleet commander and Juan de la Cosa as chief navigator. Their intention was to explore...
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    Nevada de Santa Marta in present-day Magdalena, Cesar and La Guajira departments. The territory was first sighted by Spanish explorer Alonso de Ojeda in 1499...
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    Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, and its northern regions were explored by Rodrigo de Bastidas, Alonso de Ojeda, Juan de la Cosa, Pedro de Heredia and others...
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  • Velázquez de Cuéllar Governorate of New Andalucia-Coquibacoa (Venezuela) 1501 to Alonso de Ojeda Governorate of New Andalucia (Colombia) 1510 to Alonso de Ojeda...
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    conquistadors and explorers were Alonso de Ojeda, who landed first at Colombian soil and founded the first settlement Santa Cruz, Rodrigo de Bastidas, who founded...
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  • Spanish expeditions led by Columbus and Alonso de Ojeda reached the coast of present-day Venezuela in 1498 and 1499. The first colonial exploitation was...
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  • (1:226) Concepción (1:227) Alonso de Ojeda (c. 1465 – 1515), Spanish explorer Augie Ojeda (born 1974), baseball infielder Bob Ojeda (born 1957), baseball pitcher...
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    was first set foot upon by Alonso de Ojeda. Between 1529 and the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), the name "Isla de Oruba" was used for the island...
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    malarial mosquito populations on the mainland. Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Alonso de Ojeda explored the coast of Colombia in 1500 and 1501. They spent...
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    Juan de la Cosa was among the first Europeans to see the cape in 1499, during his fourth travel as pilot for the expedition of Alonso de Ojeda, making...
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    Christopher Columbus' captains, Alonso de Ojeda, who landed on Curaçao in 1499. He is said to have called the islands Las islas de los Gigantes or Islands of...
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