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Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548–1624) was a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat whose varied roles took him to New Spain, the Baja California peninsula, the California coast and Asia.
Learn about the 1602 expedition of Sebastian Vizcaíno, who named San Diego and explored the northern coast of California. Find out the challenges, discoveries and maps of his voyage.
In San Diego: History. …de Henares in 1602 by Sebastián Vizcaíno. Gaspar de Portolá founded a presidio (military post) there on July 16, 1769, and, on the same day, Father Junípero Serra dedicated the first of the California missions (restored 1931).
Learn about the Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino, who sailed along the Pacific Coast from Acapulco to San Diego in 1602. Discover the landmarks he named, the trade routes he sought, and the legacy he left in Hispanic-American history.
Sebastián Vizcaíno (1550?-1615) was an established merchant in the trade between Mexico and Asia when he gained the royal license to explore and settle the Gulf of California. In 1596, he led an expedition to establish a colony at La Paz and explore the inner coast of the Gulf.
To Vizcaíno, a Spanish merchant-adventurer, we owe the names of many places along the California coast. EARLY HISTORY. Sebastián Vizcaíno was a Basque (a people who lived in the Pyrenees Mountains of France and Spain). He served in the Spanish forces when they invaded Portugal in 1580.
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Sebastián Vizcaíno (sāvästyän´ vēthkäē´nō), c.1550–c.1628, Spanish explorer and merchant. After an unsuccessful attempt to plant a colony in Lower California (1596), he sailed (1602) to explore the California coast, where he discovered and named Monterey Bay.
