Diego Fernández de Proaño was a
Spanish
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explorer and conquistador who served with
Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán ( Spanish) or ( Catalan) is a masculine given name of Latin origin (, , , and so on). Its Portuguese form is . Its patronymic is (). Already in the Middle Ages the name was being confused with the similar but distinct name Munio.
The meaning ...
in the exploration of
New Galicia
New Galicia or West Galicia ( or ''Galicja Zachodnia''; or ''Westgalizien'') was an administrative region of the Habsburg monarchy, constituted from the territory annexed in the course of the Third Partition of Poland in 1795.
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. He was named Justice Major of the city of
San Miguel de Culiacán by Guzmán and was later accused of abusing his power to enslave hundreds of local indigenous inhabitants in direct violation of orders from the newly established province's governor. He was the son of Juan de Proaño and of Ana de Cervantes.
References
*Carl Laurence Duaine, With All Arms A Study of a Kindred Group
*Manuel Orozco y Berra, Historia de la Dominacion Española en México
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Spanish conquistadors
Colonial Mexico
16th-century Spanish explorers