Don Juan de Oñate

1550-1625

 

 

Don Juan de Oñate

 

 

 
Original signature of Don Juan de Oñate.

 

 

 

"Passed by here, the Adelantado Don Juan de Onate, from the discovery of the Sea of the South, the 16th day of April, 1605."

Don Juan de Oñate came along. De Oñate, the first Spanish Conquistador to organize a colony in New Mexico, has the distinction of carving the first translatable and dated message, 400 years ago at El Morro National Monument.

 

 

REGIMIENTO INMEMORIAL DEL REY Nº 1

Conmemoración del Centenario de la expedición de Juan de Oñate a Santa Fe.

 

 

Oñate Rides Again

 

 

The Oñate statue in Alcalde, New Mexico

 

 

'Equestrian' statue in El Paso.
The largest and heaviest equestrian statue in the world.

 

 
Enrique Martínez' sketch map of New Mexico, c. 1602, reflecting Oñate's exploration of the plains. The pueblo de los Pecos is no 16. AGI, Torres Lanzas, México, 49. Courtesy of the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain.

 
 
The Road North, El Camino del Norte.
 

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