Antonio Osorio y Villegas (also known as Antonio Osorio, Antonio de Osorio y Villegas or Antonio de Villegas y Osorio) was a Spanish nobleman and soldier who served as governor of the Spanish colony of

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for two terms, and also as president of the Real Audiencia de Santo Domingo. He was the brother of Governor

Diego de Osorio y Villegas Diego de Osorio y Villegas (1540 in Villasandino – 1601 in Santo Domingo) was a sixteenth-century governor of Venezuela Province (1589–1597), the Venezuela Province being a part of the Spanish Empire. He was governor at the time of th ...

, and is most remembered today for having been the executor of the so-called Devastaciones de Osorio in the north and northwest of

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in the early 1600s.Story
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