Luis de Velasco y Ruiz de Alarcón was the second viceroy of New Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the mid-sixteenth century.
Luisde Velasco I
Miguel López de Legazpi
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Don Miguel López de Legazpi, also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Spanish conquistador who financed and led an expedition to conquer the Philippine islands in the mid-16th century. He was j
Luis de Velasco, 2nd Viceroy of New Spain
…settlements were struck by hunger and quarrels with hostile native warriors. The Spaniards were forced to abandon them. In early 1564, Velasco commissioned Miguel López de Legazpi and Andrés de Urdaneta to lead an expedition across the Pacific to the Spice Islands, where Ferdinand Magellan and Ruy López de Villalobos had landed…
Miguel López de Legazpi, en La Hormiga de Oro
Birthplace of López de Legazpi in Zumarraga, Basque Country
A route of the Spanish expeditions in the Philippines.
Tomb of Legazpi in San Agustin church inside the walled city of Manila