Álvaro Mexía
Alvaro Mexia was a 17th-century Spain, Spanish explorer and cartography, cartographer of the east coast of Florida. Mexia was stationed in St. Augustine, Florida, St Augustine and was given a diplomatic mission to the Indigenous peoples of Florida, native populations living south of St. Augustine and in the Cape Canaveral, Florida, Cape Canaveral area. This mission resulted in a "Period of Friendship" between the Spanish and the Ais (tribe), Ais native population. When Pedro de Ibarra (governor of La Florida), Pedro de Ibarra became the Spanish Governor of Florida, he knew the Spanish needed to improve relations with the natives, so he sent Mexia on a diplomatic mission in Timeline of Florida History, 1605 to gain knowledge of the lands and populations south of St. Augustine, as well as to assist that year's treasure fleet on its way back to Spain. Mexia wrote about his experiences among the native Ais (tribe), Ais in a document known as a ''Derrotero'', a self-proclaimed "truthf ...
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