Juan de Garay

Juan de Garay (born in 1528 with Orduña, in Spain - died close to the Río of Plata in 1583) was a Spanish conquistador.

Biography

De Garay worked and fought for the Spanish Empire, initially in the Vice-royauté of Peru, and then in that of the Río of Plata. He was governor of Asunción, in current the Paraguay and founded a certain number of cities in Argentine, especially in the area of the Rio Paraná. He was second foundation of Buenos Aires, in 1580.

In 1543, it sails for the Peru with his/her uncle Pedro de Zárate during the first forwarding of the viceroy Blasco Núñez Vela. It takes part in the foundation into 1561 of Santa Cruz of the Sierra. It moves into 1568 towards Asunción where he becomes noticed politician. The governor of Asunción dispatches it, in April 1573, with a company of eighty men towards the Paraná river, in a forwarding during which it will found the town of Santa Fe of Vera Cruz.

In 1580, already general Captain of the viceroyalty, it again founds the city which was it at the origin by Pedro de Mendoza in 1536, under the name of Nuestra Señora del Buen Ayre , before its destruction by the Natives. The second and final foundation of Buenos Aires took place the July 11th 1580.

Juan de Garay dies during a voyage from Buenos Aires with Santa Fe in 1583, when the group with which it voyage is victim of a ambush of the aboriginals.

Sources

External bonds

  1. Biography in English
  2. About his dubious of birth, Spanish place
  3. Biography in Spanish

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