Pedro Sánchez de la Hoz or Pedro Sancho de la Hoz (1514 in

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– 1547 in

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) was a Spanish merchant,

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and

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who served as secretary to

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. In 1534 he obtained the rights of a south of the Straits of Magellan. He was appointed by

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as an

of the Governorate of Terra Australis in 1539. Sánchez de la Hoz, served as secretary to

in Peru during the conquest of

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and wrote an account of the conquest of Peru. While the original manuscript was lost, the work was preserved in Italian translation and has subsequently been translated to other languages, serving as a valuable account of both the Spanish conquest and Incan

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. After some financial success, he returned to Spain and was granted leave by Emperor

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to return to the New World where he conflicted with rival conquistador

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over different grants to lands south of Peru. In 1547

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, one of Valdivia's men, had Sánchez de la Hoz executed for leading a rebellion. According to Argentina and Chile the ''capitulación'' granted to Sánchez de la Hoz proves the

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had claims and an '' animus occupandi'' on the lands that would later be called Antarctica. Given that Chile and Argentina have historically successfully established their border based on the ''

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'' principle of

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the Sánchez de la Hoz grant forms part of their arguments for

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