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	The South Texan
		Original legends said that it was Spanish explorer Alonzo de Pineda who named the area in 1519 when he stopped on Corpus Christi Bay while mapping the coast of the Gulf of Mexico for the Spanish colonization of the new world.
		However, the De Pineda map did not mention Corpus Christi and there is no evidence he landed on Corpus Christi Bay.
		The next recent documentation that is in existence of the area is that of a patrol sent to scout the area in 1747.
	www.tamuk.edu /southtexan/Lifestyles/September07/092507/lifestyles_WhatsInAName.html (523 words)

	Corpus Christi Buc Days Celebration - History
		The next day, the modern Alonzo, played by Corpus Christi attorney Marcellus Eckhardt, traveled from the mock ship to shore in a motor boat with a band of gunbearers and a monk, all dressed in what was believed to be the style of the 16th century.
		Alonzo and his men were greeted on shore by a host of city dignitaries and presented a key to the city by Mayor A.C. McCaughan.
		Poor Alonzo, who was supposed to be the star of the affair, and his band of men were left standing on the bayfront under a hot June sun.
	www.bucdays.com /history.html (828 words)

	Augusta Georgia: metro@ugusta: Daughters describe night of shooting 09/16/99
		Pineda is charged with shooting and killing Mario Molina and Leonel Vazquez, both 42, and Prisca Rosales Vazquez, 41, and her unborn child on Nov. 26 outside their mobile home at Mobile City Rentals in Grovetown.
		Pineda the night he called her father less than an hour before the killings and asked the family to his house for dinner.
		The defendant's 19-year-old son, Alonzo Pineda, who drove his father to North Carolina the night of the shootings, told the jury that he never saw his father throw his gun into the Savannah River and that he was upset when he learned of Ms.
	chronicle.augusta.com /images/headlines/091699/met_151-2025.000.shtml (502 words)

	The Founding of Corpus Christi
		Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda is credited with having first charted the Coast of Texas.
		Early in the spring of 1519 he was commissioned by the Spanish Governor of Jamaica to lead an expedition across the Gulf of Mexico, ostensibly to find a strait or passage through this continent which would lead to the Indies.
		Pineda followed the Gulf shore from Florida, toward the west.
	www.cccathedral.com /cathedral_site/history_1.htm (182 words)

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		PINEDA FOLLOWED THE COAST FROM WHAT IS NOW WESTERN FLORIDA TO PRESENT DAY VERA CRUZ, MEXICO.
		PINEDA'S REPORT AND DETAILED MAP WERE FORWARDED TO GOVERNOR.
		ALTHOUGH PINEDA'S EXPEDITION WAS A FAILURE IN THAT HE FOUND NO PASSAGE TO THE ORIENT, IT DID ENCOURAGE FURTHER EXPLORATION ALONG THE GULF COAST THAT LED TO COLONIZATION BY SPANIARDS AND OTHER EUROPEANS.
	www.co.nueces.tx.us /histcomm/alonsoalvarezdepineda.asp (214 words)

	Island Breeze - A product of the Valley Morning Star, South Padre Island, Texas
		Alonzo de Pineda landed with a small party of men at the mouth of a large river, which he dubbed the Rio de Las Palmas in 1519.
		The given name was appropriate as the river was lined with palm trees from its mouth to far inland.
		The palm tree referred to in Pineda’s log is the Texas palm (sabal Texana) and is the only indigenous palm from our region.
	spislandbreeze.com /history_more.php?id=3457_0_13_0_C (907 words)

	Explorers - P - EnchantedLearning.com
		Alonso Alvarez de Pineda was a Spanish explorer and map-maker.
		De Pineda sailed for the Spanish Governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, who sent him to explore and chart the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico in 1519.
		Captain De Pineda and his crew were probably the first Europeans in Texas, claiming it for Spain.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/indexp.shtml (1695 words)

	Bed and Breakfast Connector: Texas
		Corpus Christi is a major deep-water port and one of Texas' most popular seacoast playground cities.
		The first European to have visited the area is believed to have been Spanish explorer Alonzo de Piñeda in 1519.
		The first settlement began as a frontier trading post founded 1839 by impresario-colonizer Col. Henry Lawrence Kinney, which was an obscure settlement until about 1845 when accelerated growth began.
	www.bbconnector.com /articles/Texas.html (412 words)

	Dauphin Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shell Mound Park, along the Island's northern shore, is administered by Alabama Marine Resources Division.
		In 1519, the Spanish explorer Alonzo Pineda was the first documented European to visit, staying long enough to map the island with remarkable accuracy.
		The island's French history began on January 31, 1699, when the explorer Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville, virtually the founder of French Louisiana, arrived at Mobile Bay, and anchored near the island on his way to explore the mouth of the Mississippi River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dauphin_Island (992 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Corpus Christi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sports-fishing facilities, beaches, and a mild climate make Corpus Christi a tourist and convention center, and it is the gateway to Padre Island National Seashore.
		Tradition holds that the bay was named by the Spanish explorer Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda, who found it on Corpus Christi Day in 1519, but there is evidence that it was named instead by the first settlers, who arrived from the lower Rio Grande valley in the 1760s.
		Kinney founded a trading post, and traders and adventurers collected in a raffish colony on land claimed by both Texas and Mexico.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/CorpusChTX.asp (392 words)

	Bath Engineering
		Corpus Christi is a deep-water port and one of the most popular seacoast destination cities in Texas.
		Spanish explorer Alonzo de Pineda was the first known European visitor to the area in 1519.
		The first settlers in Corpus Christi, led by Colonel Henry Lawrence Kinney, established a frontier trading post in 1839.
	www.bathgroup.com /view_page.sstg?category=25&id=15 (250 words)

	EarlyChicagoHOME
		On a second voyage, in 1498, Cabot and his ship are lost at sea, but evidence points to a southeasterly passage as far as the Carribean and Cuba.
		On September 29, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador, reaches the Pacific Ocean upon crossing the land bridge of Panama, and thus confirms the presence of another ocean between America and Asia.
		Alonzo de Pineda, Spanish conquistador, explores the Gulf of Mexico and arrives at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but does not pursue the inlet.
	www.earlychicago.com /chron.php (17855 words)

	GulfBase - Exploration History
		Don Alonzo Álvarez de Pineda explores the west coast of Florida and the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
		Although most agree that the river encountered by Pineda was the Mississippi (Harrisse, 1900), some argue that he actually explored present-day Mobile Bay (Scaife, 1892).
		Regardless, Pineda's expedition provided a great deal of knowledge about the outline of the Gulf coast and resulted in the production of a new map, "Traza de Costas de Tierra Firme y las Tierras Nuevas" in 1521.
	www.gulfbase.org /exploration (2915 words)

	Nickel Plated Highway to Hell - Ch 1-2
		CHAPTER ONE The history of Hidalgo County leading up to the political warfare of the 1920's actually began in 1519 when Alonzo de Pineda discovered the Valley.
		He came across the mouth of the Rio Grande River as he was exploring the Gulf Coast under the orders of Francisco de Garay, the governor of Jamaica.
		On Pineda's map he referred to the river as Rio de los Pescadores (fishermen).
	www.mcallen.lib.tx.us /books/nickle/nic_ch01.htm (3351 words)

	Corpus Christi Texas Hometown Web Pages
		Corpus Christi is a deep-water port and one of the most popular seacoast destination cities in Texas.
		Spanish explorer Alonzo de Pineda was the first known European visitor to the area in 1519.
		The first settlers in Corpus Christi, led by Colonel Henry Lawrence Kinney, established a frontier trading post in 1839.
	www.hometown-web.com /corpuschristi (188 words)

	Corpu Christi Museum of Science & History Educational Resources
		Alvarez de Pineda was a Spanish explorer and cartographer.
		In 1519, the Governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, sent de Pineda to explore and chart the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico in an attempt to find a water route from the Gulf to the Orient.
		Alvarez de Pineda retreated back up the Mexican coast to Rio Panuco where he attempted to establish a settlement at a site near present day Tampico.
	www.ccmuseumedres.com /tour.php?action=details&record=152 (263 words)

	Town of South Padre Island \| About Town
		The Town of South Padre Island is linked to the mainland by the Queen Isabella Causeway, a 2 1/2 mile four lane bridge to Port Isabel Texas.
		South Padre Island was first charted, in 1519, by the Spanish Explorer Alonzo de Pineda.
		He named it "Isla Blanca" or "White Island." Then in 1804, Missionary Priest Padre Jose Nicholas Balli established the first settlement on the island after the initial grant was made by King Charles IV of Spain.
	www.townspi.com /about_spi.html (457 words)

	Corpus Cristi
		In 1519, on the Roman Catholic Feast Day of Corpus Christi, Spanish explorer Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda discovered a lush semi-tropical bay on what is now the southern coast of Texas.
		The bay, and the city that later sprung up there, took the name of the feast dIn 1519, on the Roman Catholic Feast Day of Corpus Christi, Spanish explorer Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda discovered a lush semi-tropical bay on what is now the southern coast of Texas.
		The spot Pineda discovered is now home to the largest city on the Texas Coast and is the sixth largest port in the nation.
	members.tripod.com /c_kschober/id22.html (138 words)

	McAllen, Texas - History - About the Rio Grande Valley - Mcallen History Timeline
		Aztec Indians from Central Mexico made annual trips to the a rea to gather peyote to be used in tribal rituals.
		In 1519, Alonzo de Pineda discovered the mouth of the Rio Grande, making this the second place in the United States visited by European explorers after Columbus discovered America in 1492.
		Other explorers including Cabeza de Vaca made their way through this area, but civilization did not advance much until 1749 when Jose de Escandon established the San Joauquin Mission in present day Hidalgo.
	www.mcallen.org /For-Visitors/History (1756 words)

	Untitled Document
		This study strives to serve as a skeleton key to open the closet of secrets and allow the history of slavery in the area to be understood so as never to be repeated again.
		The city is named for the Mauvilla Indians, who served as Pineda's host in his initial voyage into the area.
		Mauvilla, the word for 'boat paddlers' was retained as the name of the area after Pineda left the village.
	webdev.loyola.edu /aleonard/charlotte (5482 words)

	Dauphin Island and the History of North America's Colonization in Miniature
		to that country (even if Columbus is to be taken at his word that he was, in fact, Italian) it is only fitting that Spanish explorer Alonzo Pineda was the 1st European to map the Dauphin Island in 1519.
		It wasn?t until 80 years after Pineda made his map that the next great European colonial power arrived on Dauphin?s shores.
		In 1699 French explorer Pierre Le Moyne, sier d?Iberville, future architect of French Louisiana, was beginning his exploration of the mouth of the Mississippi.
	www.lasr.net /travelarticles.php?ID=1469 (643 words)

	spanish (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Records involving Padre Island date from 1519 when a Spanish cartographer sketched the first map of the Texas coast.
		He sailed with Alonzo de Pineda of the Spanish fleet who was commissioned by the governor of Jamaica to explore the Gulf of Mexico, charting its environs in the search for a water route that was expected to lead into the Pacific Ocean.
		When Pineda got to the Padre Island area, he noted on the map that the series of barrier islands had water passes between.
	www.sanbenito.k12.tx.us /schools/bertacabaza/hssb/Magnificant_Padre_Island/spanish.html (201 words)

	Fort Tours \| Fort Gaines
		Dauphin Island and Mobile Bay were mapped as early as 1519 by Alonzo Pineda.
		In 1699, the French explorer, Pierre Le Moyne de'Iberville named it "Massacre" because of a large pile of human skeletons he discovered.
		The city in turn gave the property to the Alabama Department of Conservation, which deeded it to the Dauphin Island Park and Beach Board.
	www.forttours.com /pages/fortgaines.asp (1064 words)

	The Spanish Inroads
		Howbeit, in 1519, Garay, the Spanish Viceroy of Jamaica sent an expedition to explore the coast of the Mexique Sea, west of Florida, for a passage to the westward.
		Alvarez Alonzo de Pineda led this expedition, and on the charts made by his pilots, the estuaries of the Mississippi are traced, and called: Rio Espiritu Santo.
		And, in 1528, Cabeza do Vaca, with part of Narvaez's ill-starred expedition, while coasting westward, discovered one of its outlets.
	www.alabamagenealogy.org /spanish_inroads.htm (1540 words)

	Caller.com: Local News
		In his home studio, an unfinished work of two deer jumping across a fallen tree sits on the table.
		The works he completed are numerous and prominent: "Rejoice with Me," at the Church of the Good Shepherd; "Karankawa Indian," at the Nueces County Courthouse; "Christ the Healer," at Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline; "Capt. Alonzo de Pineda," de Pineda Park.
		Though Jackie often demurred when Sherman talked of her sculpting talent, he did regularly give her credit for having taught him the art.
	www.caller.com /ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_4322987,00.html (620 words)

	CMAS Books
		Lucio Alonzo Del Toro, Frances Valdez, and Chris Piñeda, UT Austin SVREP organizers.
		he Southwest Voter Send Info and Education Project recently established a field project at UT Austin, under the leadership of UT students Frances Valdez (chief coordinator), Chris Piñeda (chairperson), and Lucio Alonzo Del Toro (treasurer).
		Maintaining a focus on community empowerment, SVREP now operates in fourteen states and over 1,000 local communities, mainly in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest.
	www.utexas.edu /depts/cmas/content/noticias/archives/fall2000/svep.htm (271 words)

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	www.caburden.com /volume_one_pdf/Introduction.rtf (11375 words)

	Port Isabel, Texas Local Information
		Our Gulf breezes keep us cooler in the summer than the rest of the area and our winters are shorter with warmer temperatures!
		The area has a long and interesting history dating back to 1519 when it was charted by Spanish explorer Alonzo de Pineda and inhabited by pirates and Indians.
		There are tales of pirate’s treasure still buried on the Island.
	www.portisabel-texas.com /info/index.html (493 words)

	Official web site for City of Corpus Christi, Texas
		In 1519, on the Roman Catholic Feast Day of Corpus Christi, Spanish explorer Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda discovered a lush semi-tropical bay on what is now the southern coast of Texas.
		The spot Pineda discovered is now home to the largest city on the Texas Coast and is the sixth largest port in the nation.
		Key industries include petrochemical, tourism, health care, retail, education, shipping, agriculture and the military.
	www.cctexas.com /?fuseaction=main.view&page=109 (1017 words)

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