Fortún Ximénez (death in 1533) was a Spanish sailor who directed a mutiny during a forwarding along the coast of the Mexico and founded the first European colony known in the Péninsule of Low-California.
Ximénez was the pilot of a boat sent by Hernán the Cortes in 1533 to explore towards north the coast of the Nouvelle Spain on the basis of current the Manzanillo, Colima in the search of two ships not returned of a similar forwarding the previous year. The purpose of these voyages were to discover mythical the Détroit of Anián and alleged the Île of California which according to a novel published before in Spain was a terrestrial paradise only populated women with the dye chechmate. During the voyage, Ximénez took the head of a mutiny during which the captain was killed. The mutineers approached then close to the current town of La Paz on the southern point of the basic Peninsula California which the mutineers thought of being the Island of California.
Ximénez was killed then by Amerindian S. the survivors returned in Spain News, telling to have seen women with the dye chechmate and pearls black what seemed to confirm the legend of the Island of California.
These stories encouraged the Cortes to assemble other forwardings in the years which followed.
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