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	Gaspar de Carvajal
		In 1540 Carvajal accompanied the famous expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro to the territory of Quixos and the Amazon.
		Carvajal and another member of the expedition, Sánchez de Vargas, protested against this proceeding of dishonour and treachery.
		Carvajal was sent by his superiors to the mission of Tucuman, where for several years he laboured with unceasing zeal and devotion for the conversion of the native tribes in this immense territory.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/c/carvajal,gaspar_de.html (298 words)

	Guia de casas rurales
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	www.elgranviajero.com /casas_rurales (1179 words)

	Gaspar De Carvajal
		CARVAJAL, Gaspar de, missionary, born in Extramadura, Spain, early in the 16th century; died in Lima, Peru, in 1584.
		Father Carvajal was elected sub-prior of the convent of San Rosario in Lima, and while in this place he was chosen to arbitrate between the viceroy, Blasco de Nunez, and the auditors of the royal audience in 1554, but was unsuccessful.
		After the pacification of the country, he was sent by his superiors to the mission of Tucuman, and appointed protector of the Indians in this country.
	www.famousamericans.net /gaspardecarvajal (601 words)

	Reporter at Large: The Amazons
		An account of the engagement appears in the chronicles of the Dominican friar Gaspar de Carvajal, who on December 26, 1541, with the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana and about sixty countrymen, set out in a jerry-built brigantine down the Napo, an Ecuadoran tributary of the Amazon.
		As Carvajal relates, the men were reduced to eating "leather, belts, and soles of shoes cooked with certain herbs." Several went mad after eating some unidentified roots.
		On the twenty-fourth of June, Carvajal recorded, "We came suddenly upon the excellent land and dominion of the Amazons.
	www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com /pastdispatches/brazil/amazons1.html (2460 words)

	Chapter 3 Page 30
		In the expedition of Don Juan de Oñate to New Mexico there figures, at the sife of his father and his brother, Esteban de Sosa native of the valley of el Súchil and the son of Francisco de Sosa Peñalosa, the elder.
		Towards the middle of 1581, Alberto de Canto returned to Saltillo and caused the uxoricide committed by Diego de Montemayor, who fled, in turn, to hide in the mines of San Gregorio at the end of 1581, del Canto again occupying the post of magistrate of Saltillo.
		Duarte de León was the one who took him in, at the death of his father, and educated him and gave him all his training.
	www.library.ci.corpus-christi.tx.us /newkingdom/reinochapter3p30.htm (1330 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: CARVAJAL Y DE LA CUEVA, LUIS DE
		Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva, governor, adventurer, slave trader, and the first Spanish subject to enter Texas from Mexico across the lower Rio Grande, was born in Mogodorio, Portugal, about 1540, the son of Gaspar de Carvajal and Francisca De León, Jewish converts to the Christian faith.
		Within five years Carvajal was to reconnoiter the interior, convert the Indians, and settle all the ports from Tampico to St. Joseph Bay, which bordered the Florida jurisdiction of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
		Carvajal finally was overtaken at Almadén, which he had established with "renegades who acknowledged neither God nor king," to carry on his slaving operation among peaceful Indians.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/print/CC/fcadn.html (1251 words)

	The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Much, if not most of the open vegetation of the Orinoco Llanos, the Llanos de Mojos of Bolivia, the Pantanal of Moto Grosso, the Bolfvar savannas of Colombo, the Guayas savannas of coastal Ecuador, the campo cerrado of central Brazil, and the coastal savannas north of the Amazon, is of natural origin.
		Gaspar de Carvajal, traveling down the Amazon with Orellana in 1541, reported "highways" penetrating the forest from river bank villages.
		Joseph de Acosta (1880, (1) 171) in 1590 said that between Peru and Brazil, there were "waies as much beaten as those betwixt Salamanca and Valladolid." Prehistoric roads in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico are described in Trombold (1991).
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~alcoze/for398/class/pristinemyth.html (8755 words)

	Francisco de Orellana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francisco de Orellana (c1500-c1549) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador.
		Orellana took part in the Spanish conquest of Peru with Francisco Pizarro, and was one of Gonzalo Pizarro's lieutenants during Gonzalos's 1541 expedition east of Quito into the South American interior in search of El Dorado.
		Relación del nuevo descubrimiento del famoso río Grande que descubrió por muy gran ventura el capitán Francisco de Orellana, an account of the voyage by Orellana's chaplain, Gaspar de Carvajal.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francisco_de_Orellana (243 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gaspar de Carvajal
		In 1540 Carvajal accompanied the famous expedition of Gonzalo
		Pizarro decided to send a small band of men accompanied by Carvajal and under the command of Francisco de Orellana down the river in search of provisions.
		Carvajal was sent by his superiors to the mission of Tucuman, where for several years he laboured with unceasing zeal and devotion for the
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03393b.htm (307 words)

	ACTO
		Carvajal's journal became an important document for knowing the people and forests in the sixteenth century.
		The expedition, outlined upon assistance of the Núcleo de Estudos da Amazônia da Universidade de Brasilia (NEAz-UnB), has as main target to provide to 45 youngsters of Amazon countries a human experience of and an opportunity to learn more about the Amazon region.
		It will be held under the guidance of highly skilled teachers and professionals from several academic and technical institutions working in the region.
	www.otca.org.br /en/exped_jovem.php (351 words)

	Discoverers Web: Orellana
		At the confluence with the Napo, Orellana (with the Dominican Gaspar de Carvajal who chronicled the expedition) and 50 men set off down stream to find food, and arrived at a village on the Napo.
		Sufficient funds were raised through the efforts of Cosmo de Chaves, Orellana's stepfather, but the problems were compounded by Orellana's decision to marry a very young and poor girl, Ana de Ayala, whom he intended to take with him (along with her sisters).
		Gaspar de Carvajal: Descrubimiento del Rio de las Amazonas, segun la relacion hasta ahora inedita de Fr.
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/orellana.html (1428 words)

	Those Sophisticated Cave Men--Earthmovers of the Amazon: & An Artificial Landscape-Scale Fishery in the Bolivian Amazon ...
		The region, known as the Llanos de Mojos, is characterized by savannas, wetlands, and tropical forest.
		Francisco de Orellana, one of the original Conquistadors, was in charge of the first European expedition down the Amazon river.
		In their view, the causeways and raised fields of the Llanos de Mojos were probably created by a higher culture, perhaps from the Andes, which set up short-lived colonies that winked out under ecological pressure.
	www.s8int.com /sophis23.html (4303 words)

	CHAPTER 1. SETTLEMENT AND SLAVERY, TO 1719
		Gaspar de Carvajal described taking several days to pass through the large towns of the Omagua tribe on the Amazon in 1542.
		Led by Nicolas de Villegaignon, a naval officer, the French control the area of Rio de Janeiro.
		The early plantations were in regions with readily-available slave labor in Rio de Janeiro; the abolition of slavery and European immigration into the State of São Paulo in the late 19th century caused coffee growing to move southward to the region where soil conditions, climate, and altitude provided a suitable environment.
	www.vernonjohns.org /plcooney/brhsettl.html (3489 words)

	Amazon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Half way through XVI century, the name Amazonas was given by a Spanish monk called Gaspar de Carvajal, the first European columnist to travel through the Amazon River.
		Manaus, the capital of the State of Amazonas, was the worldwide diamond selling capital, and its theater with 681 seats, was specially brought from Europe in a ship to be assembled in Brazil.
		The original project belongs to the Liceu de Engenharia de Lisboa (Portugal) and the inner decoration to Sir Domêncio de Angelis.
	www.aventura-am.com.br /best/inform.htm (874 words)

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