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Pedro del Castillo (
Villalba de Rioja
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, 1521 -
Panama City
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, 28 March 1569) was a
Spanish
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conquistador.
Biography
After acting as ''
corregidor'' in some recently founded American towns, he was in
Chile
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at the orders of
Francisco de Villagra
Francisco de Villagra Velázquez (1511 – 22 July 1563) was a Spanish conquistador, and three times governor of Chile.
Early life
Born at Santervás de Campos, he was the son of Alvaro de Sarría and Ana Velázquez de Villagra, who were not m ...
, with whom he took part in the
Arauco War
The Arauco War was a long-running conflict between colonial Spaniards and the Mapuche people, mostly fought in the Araucanía. The conflict began at first as a reaction to the Spanish conquerors attempting to establish cities and force Mapuche ...
.
In November 1560 he was appointed by the
Governor of Chile
The Royal Governor of Chile ruled over the Spanish colonial administrative district called the Captaincy General of Chile, and as a result the Royal Governor also held the title of a Captain General. There were 66 such governors or captains du ...
,
García Hurtado de Mendoza, as ''capitán general y teniente gobernador para poblar, fundar, repartir tierras y encomendar indios en la provincia de Cuyo'' (commander-in-chief and plenipotentiary for the province of
Cuyo), in what is now western
Argentina
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. Castillo organized and expedition that crossed the
Andes
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, passing through the
Aconcagua
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and
Uspallata
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valleys, reaching the
Huentata valley on 22 February.
On 2 March 1561, Pedro del Castillo founded the city of
Mendoza. Some time later, he was sent to
Lima
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,
Peru
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, and afterwards he established himself in
Panama
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. He died in
Panama City
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in 1569.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Castillo, Pedro Del
1521 births
1569 deaths
People from La Rioja
Spanish conquistadors
People of colonial Argentina