• Jacinto Caamaño Moraleja, OC (September 8, 1759 – November 29, 1829) was a Spanish explorer who was the leader of the last great Spanish exploration of...
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  • Peruvian Jesuit preacher and historian Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954), Spanish dramatist and Nobel laureate Jacinto Caamaño (1759–1829), leader of the last great...
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    Caamaño is a Spanish-language surname. It may refer to: Álvaro Eugenio de Mendoza Caamaño y Sotomayor (1671–1761), Spanish aristocrat and priest Darlene...
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  • officially named the strait Caamaño Passage. Caamaño Sound, another body of water in British Columbia that is named for Jacinto Caamaño Walbran, John T. (1909)...
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    Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño (11 December 1890 – 17 August 1950) was an Ecuadorian historian, archeologist, and politician. He was the mayor of the city of...
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  • Annette Island, Duke Island, and Mary Island. The Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño named the Gravina Islands group in 1792, in honor of Federico Carlos...
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    23 November 1883 to 1 July 1888. Caamaño was born in Guayaquil. He was the grandson of Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño. He studied law and theology in...
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    In English, the island was named for 18th century Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño. American explorer Charles Wilkes, during the Wilkes Expedition of...
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  • Learmonth of HMS Egeria, for Jacinto Caamaño, who explored the region in command of the Spanish corvette Aranzazu. Caamaño Passage, another body of water...
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    died of wounds sustained during the Battle of Trafalgar. Explorer Jacinto Caamaño named the Gravina Island in Alaska in his honor. Gravina was born in...
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    by George Vancouver in honor of Prince William, Duke of Clarence. Jacinto Caamaño, who had explored the region a year before Vancouver, named the strait...
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    Spain. Jacinto Caamaño, commander of the frigate Aránzazu, sailed to Bucareli Bay in 1792. Juan Pantoja y Arriaga served as his pilot. Caamaño conducted...
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  • first European recorded as having sighted it was Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño in 1792; it was named the following year by British naval officer George...
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    Bucareli Bay off Prince of Wales Island the following year. In 1792 Jacinto Caamaño sighted Revillagigedo Island and the Gravina Islands, discovering Clarence...
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    Thinking it was a bay he named it Ensenada de Caamaño, after the Spanish naval officer Jacinto Caamaño. Two years later Admiralty Inlet was given its...
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  • three points (Jacinto Point, Caamaño Point, and Aranzazu Point) after the Spanish explorer who discovered this island, Jacinto Caamaño, and his recorded...
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    a population of 50 people at the 2000 census. The Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño named the Gravina Islands group in 1792. George Vancouver applied the...
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    Nuu-chah-nulth peoples before returning to Mexico. Another Spanish explorer, Jacinto Caamaño, sailed the ship Aranzazu to Nootka Sound in May 1792. There he met...
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  • "Caamaño Sound". BC Geographical Names. Caamaño, Jacinto (October 1938). Wagner, Henry R.; Newcombe, W.A. (eds.). "The Journal of Jacinto Caamano, Part...
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    "Caamaño Sound". BC Geographical Names. Caamaño, Jacinto (October 1938). Wagner, Henry R.; Newcombe, W.A. (eds.). "The Journal of Jacinto Caamano, Part...
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  • Florida ("Small Mouth" Key) Camano Island, Washington (after explorer Jacinto Caamaño) Dry Tortugas, a group of islands in the Florida Keys in the United...
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    Flores circumnavigate Vancouver Island, proving its insularity. 1792 – Jacinto Caamaño enters Clarence Strait, showing that much of the Alaska Panhandle is...
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  • Maryland – Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore Camano Island, Washington – Jacinto Caamaño (explorer) (note the spelling) Camden, 4 places in Maine, New Jersey...
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  • (160 sq mi). It was named on August 30, 1792 by Lieutenant Commander Jacinto Caamaño of the Spanish corvette Aranzazu for Spanish captain Gabriel de Aristazábal...
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    Saavedra Guiráldez y Ordóñez, Francisco de Eliza, Salvador Fidalgo, Jacinto Caamaño, and Salvador Menéndez Valdés. Bodega and these six officers sailed...
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    Squally Channels, circumnavigating Gil Island in the process—named by Jacinto Caamaño the previous year. The day after their return they sailed out of their...
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    Cordova y Cordova was given by the Spanish explorer Lieutenant Don Jacinto Caamaño in 1792, in honor of Admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova. The name was...
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  • ISBN 978-9978-22-537-0. Jacinto, Jijón y Caamaño. "De «Política conservadora» (Tomo I, págs. 97-209)". Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño (in Spanish). Biblioteca...
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    name MacDonough was changed to Camano to honor the Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño. Wilkes' name Saratoga Passage was retained. George Vancouver had previously...
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    first to describe Tuncahuán phase was the Ecuadorian archaeologist Jacinto Caamano Jijón and early twentieth century, based on its investigation five...
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