Category
page 1Spanish explorers of North America
Hernán Cortés
Spanish conquistador
Hernando de Soto
Spanish explorer and conquistador
Juan Ponce de León
Spanish explorer and conquistador
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Spanish explorer of the American southwest
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Portuguese or Spanish explorer
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Spanish explorer of the New World
Pánfilo de Narváez
Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas
Juan Díaz de Solís
16th Century navigator and explorer
Juan de Grijalva
Spanish conquistador (1490-1527)
Junípero Serra
Christian missionary
Juan de la Cosa
Basque navigator from Castile,
Francisco Hernández de Cordoba
conquistador, explorer
Gaspar de Portolà
explorer and soldier in New Spain
Rodrigo de Triana
Spanish explorer born in the Andalusian province of Huelva, in the Town of Lepe.
Alessandro Malaspina of Mulazzo
Spanish explorer (1754–1810)
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Spanish explorer and governor (1519–1574)
Nicolás de Ovando
Spanish explorer, colonial governors
Francisco Hernández de Toledo
Spanish naturalists and physician (1515-1587)
Francisco de Montejo y León
Spanish conquistador
Juan de Bermúdez
Spanish explorer
Sebastián Vizcaíno
Spanish explorer (1548-1623)
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda
Spanish explorer and cartographer
Juan de Oñate
Spanish Conquistador, explorer, and colonial governor
Francisco de Ulloa
Spanish explorer
García López de Cárdenas
Spanish explorer, the first European to see the Grand Canyon
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón
Spanish explorer
Estevanico
Estevanico (–1539), Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first African and person to explore North America and one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition.
Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
Spanish naval officer (1743-1794)
Juan de Ayala
Spanish explorer of San Francisco Bay
Hernando de Alarcón
Spanish explorer
Francisco Antonio Mourelle
Spanish explorer (1750-1820)
Felipe de Neve
Governor of the Californias
Cayetano Valdés y Flórez
Spanish general and admiral (1767-1835)
Juan José Pérez Hernández
Spanish explorer
José de Bustamante y Guerra
Spanish naval officer and politician (1759-1825)
José María Narváez
Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator
Joan Crespí
Franciscan missionary and explorer of Las Californias
Martín Fernández de Enciso
Spanish explorer
Bruno de Heceta
Spanish explorer
Pedro Fages
Spanish explorer
Francisco de Eliza
Spanish explorer
Silvestre Vélez de Escalante
Spanish missionary
Fernando Rivera y Moncada
Spanish explorer
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano
1760-1805 Spanish naval officer (1760–1805)
Salvador Fidalgo
Spanish explorer
Vicente Tofiño de San Miguel
Spanish Navy officer, navigator and cosmographer (1732-1795)
Francisco de Ibarra
Spanish explorer
Francisco Garcés
explorer, missionary (1738-1781)
Jacinto Caamaño
Spanish explorer (1759–1829)
Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra
Spanish explorer
Bartolomé Ferrer
Spanish explorer
Luis de Moscoso Alvarado
Spanish explorer
Diego Álvarez Chanca
Spanish physician
Andrés Dorantes de Carranza
Spanish explorer
Fortún Ximénez
Basque mutineer
Gonzalo López de Haro
Spanish explorer
Diego de Arana
Governor: first documented European settlement in the New World/La Navidad
Alonso de León
Colonial explorer of North America
José Joaquín Moraga
explorer, Californio