Gaspar de Portolá
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Don Gaspar de Portolá y Rovira was a Spanish Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of the Californias from 1767 to 1770. Born in Catalonia into an aristocratic famil
Retrat Gaspar de Portolà
Monument to Portolá in Balaguer, Catalonia.
Portolá expedition monument in Pacifica, California honoring Portolá's first sighting of San Francisco Bay.
Monument to Portolá in Sant Esteve de la Sarga, Catalonia.
Os de Balaguer
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Os de Balaguer is a municipality in the comarca of Noguera, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. It has a population of 1,088.
Gaspar de Portolá
…bestowed names to geographic features throughout California, many of which are still in use. Gaspar de Portolá y Rovira was born on January 1, 1716 in Os de Balaguer, Catalonia, into a family of minor Catalan nobility. After he came of age, Portolá joined the Spanish Army, being commissioned as an ensign in 1734 and…
Os de Balaguer