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22: 464:: Clotilde P. Garcia, M.D., of Corpus Christi, Texas, for much of the known historical information about Alvarez de Piñeda. Her years of research were conducted in order to prepare a paper to qualify for the issuance of a historical marker for Captain Alonso Alvarez de Piñeda in Corpus Christi. The only actual mention of his date of birth appears in a biography of his immediate superior, Francisco de Garay 193:, outfitted three ships with two hundred and seventy soldiers and placed them under the command of Álvarez de Pineda, who left Santiago in early 1520 and sailed west to follow the northern coastline of the Gulf. At the western tip of southern Florida, he attempted to sail east, but the winds were not on his side, somehow he did anchor off 228:
The expedition established the remainder of the boundaries of the Gulf of Mexico while disproving the idea of a sea passage to Asia. It also verified that Florida was a peninsula instead of an island. Álvarez de Pineda became the first European to see the coastal areas of what is now western Florida,
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had departed. Cortés returned on hearing of Álvarez de Pineda's arrival. Álvarez de Pineda wished to establish a boundary between the lands he was claiming for Garay and those that Cortés had already claimed; Cortés was unwilling to bargain, and Álvarez de Pineda left to retrace his route northward.
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Shortly thereafter, he sailed up a river he named Las Palmas, where he spent over 40 days repairing his ships. The Las Palmas was most likely the
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to find him, but they were unsuccessful, finding only his burned ships. Pineda's map did make it back to Governor Garay.
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by sailing around its coast. In doing so he created the first map to depict what is now
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[piˈneða]
conquistador
cartographer
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Gulf Coast of the United States
Aldeacentenera
1494
Yucatán Peninsula
Pánuco River
Florida
Antón de Alaminos
Francisco de Garay
Colony of Santiago
Villa Rica de la Veracruz
Hernán Cortés
Pánuco River
Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Huastec people

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