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    Alonso Álvarez de Pineda (Spanish: [piˈneða]; 1494–1520) was a Spanish conquistador and cartographer who was the first to prove the insularity of the...
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  • include: Alex Pineda Chacón (born 1969), Honduran football (soccer) player Alonso Álvarez de Pineda (died 1519), Spanish explorer Álvaro Pineda (1945–1975)...
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    given to the settlement and surrounding bay by Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519, as he discovered the lush semitropical bay on the Western...
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  • Community of Madrid (1:171) Alonso (footballer) (Alonso Ferreira de Matos) (born 1980), Brazilian footballer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda (1494–1520), Spanish explorer...
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  • Nicuesa Alonso de Ojeda Cristóbal de Olid Diego de Ordaz Francisco de Orellana Juan de Oñate Rodrigo Orgóñez Joan Orpí i del Pou Alonso Álvarez de Pineda Vicente...
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  • to find Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who had gone missing in his own expedition in the Pánuco River. This was but the second attempt to find Pineda, the first...
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    first inhabited by Paleo-Indians. In 1519, when Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda sailed through the pass to what he later named Corpus Christi Bay...
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  • first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520. While searching...
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    the Republic of Texas, and American Texas. As early as 1519, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda claimed the area that is now Texas for Spain. The Spanish monarchy...
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    expedition of Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519. This was followed by the forced exploration of the shipwreck survivors Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, his companion...
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    Alabama Marine Resources Division. In 1519, the Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda was the first documented European to visit, staying long enough...
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    along the western coast of the Gulf of Mexico, Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda established a settlement on the river, which he named Las Palmas...
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  • François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer (d. 1553) date unknown Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (d. 1519) Christina Gyllenstierna...
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    the Isla de Malhado, the "Isle of Misfortune", or Isla de Culebras, the "Isle of Snakes". In 1519, an expedition led by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda actually...
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  • passes the old harbor of Los Brazos de Santiago, the landing place of the Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519 and subsequent colonizers from...
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    expedition under Alonso Álvarez de Pineda to map the coast between Florida and the northern limit of the lands visited by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar.: 132–133 ...
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    micropolitan statistical area. Spanish conquistador and cartographer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda was likely the first European to encounter this land when he sailed...
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    more detail in 1516 by Diego Miruelo and in 1519 by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda. In 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez travelled through what was likely the Mobile...
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    Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda became the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River, followed by Hernando de Soto who reached...
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    in 1519 by Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda. Nine years later, shipwrecked Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his cohort became the...
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  • who sent Francisco de Montejo to claim the area and by Francisco de Garay, governor of Jamaica, who sent Alonso Alvarez de Pineda. The province was the...
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    in the region when Spaniards, led by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, probed the coast in 1519. Governor Francisco de Garay of Jamaica had commissioned him...
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    Hernán Cortés arrived at the port of Veracruz, a captain named Alonso Álvarez de Pineda carried out a brief expedition to the region of northern Tamaulipas...
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    Francisco Hernández de Cordova mapped most of Florida's Gulf coast to the Mississippi River in 1517, and Alonso Álvarez de Pineda sailed and mapped the...
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    settlers of the nineteenth century. 1519–1685 Hernando Cortez and Alonso Álvarez de Pineda claim Texas for Spain. 1685–1690 France plants its flag on Texas...
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  • the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519). 1608 – A newly nationalized silver mine in Scotland at...
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    border was the Sabine River, 45 miles (72 km) to the west. Although Alonso Álvarez de Pineda claimed Texas for Spain in 1519, the area was largely ignored by...
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    nomadic Karankawa and Coahuiltecan Indians. The Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda is believed to be the first European to come in contact with Laguna...
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    fell on June 23, 1519, when Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda navigated its waters. Joaquín de Orobio y Basterra came across the bay in 1746...
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    explorers. Juan Ponce de León was the first European to come to the South when he landed in Florida in 1513. Alonso Álvarez de Pineda was the first European...
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