Hernán Cortés
Spanish conquistador
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Gulf of California | Gulf of California is called "Sea of Cortez" locally, because Hernan Cortes discovered Baja California in 1536 | |
Kasbah of Algiers | Volunteered at expedition to Algiers in 1541 | |
Mexico City and Xochimilco | Siege of Tenochtitlan (1521) | |
Popocatepetl monasteries | Cuernavaca Cathedral: Building of the complex proper began in 1529 on land donated by Juana de Zúñiga de Cortés, Hernán Cortés’s wife (wiki) | |
Salamanca | Studied for 4 years at University of Salamanca | |
Santo Domingo | Registered as a citizen there in 1503 | |
Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios | visited 1518 |
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