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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Discovery of Brazil (redirect from Invasão de Pindorama)
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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Seville (section Parque de María Luisa)
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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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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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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Colombia (redirect from Republica de Colombia)
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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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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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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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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La Guajira Department (section Serranía de Macuira)
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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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nearby islands to the mosquito populations on the mainland. Alonso de Ojeda and Vasco Núñez de Balboa explored the coast of Colombia in 1500 and 1501. They...
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