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	AllRefer.com - SebastiAn de BenalcAzar (Latin American History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		After accompanying Columbus on his third voyage (1498), BenalcAzar served in DariEn and Nicaragua before joining Francisco Pizarro in the conquest of Peru (1532).
		Setting out from Piura, he forestalled Pedro de Alvarado in support of Diego de Almagro, the elder, and entered (1533) the native stronghold of Quito, founded Guayaquil, and marched (1535) into SW Colombia in search of El Dorado.
		For executing the leader of a neighboring province that he claimed as his, BenalcAzar was tried (1550) and convicted.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Benalcaz.html (308 words)

	quito (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		On May 24, 1822, a troop led by Antonio José de Sucre defeated the Spanish resistance in the Battle of Pichincha securing the independence of Quito.
		This madonna represents a turning point of the Quito School of Art (one of the most renowned of the Americas) because it shows a virgin with great movemnt that is practically dancing as a contrast with the traditional static madonnas that were produced during the 18th century.
		A monument to the french expedition is located in San Antonio de Pichincha north of Quito, where the equator line is also visible separating the south and north hemispheres.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Quito.html (1059 words)

	Encyclopedia: Conquistador
		The first of the Conquistadors to sail the vast Pacific Ocean was Miguel LÃ³pez de Legazpi in 1564 and arrived in the Philippine archipelago on 1565.
		Francisco HernÃ¡ndez de CÃ³rdoba (died 1517) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the YucatÃ¡n Peninsula was discovered by Europeans.
		Jump to: navigation, search Hernando de Soto Hernando de SotÃ² (born 1496 in Spain, died 21 May 1542, probably on a branch of the Mississippi river near present-day Lake City, Arkansas) was a Spanish navigator and conquistador; de Soto participated in the conquest of Panama at the side of...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Conquistador (4132 words)

	Main destinations when you travel to Ecuador, including Quito, Guayaquil, Galapagos Islands, Cuenca, Otavalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		San Francisco de Quito is the capital of Ecuador and it is located south of the Equator, in the Inter Andean valley.
		La Compañía de Jesus with the extraordinary facade (lacework on stone), there are six salomonic columns in the lower part of the facade of the church.
		This town is in the north of Ecuador and it is lying at the foot of the Imbabura volcano (45 miles north east of Quito).
	www.andeanodyssey.com /dest01ecu.htm (983 words)

	Sebastian de Benalcazar Biography / Biography of Sebastian de Benalcazar Main Biography
		The Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Benalcázar (died 1551) conquered large areas of Colombia and founded several cities in South America.
		Sebastián de Moyano, the original name of Benalcázar, was probably born at Belalcázar in Estremadura, Spain.
		Benalcázar is known to have been at Nombre de Diós on the Isthmus of Panama in 1511, and he probably served with the explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-sebastian-de-benalcazar (565 words)

	Wikipedia: Cali
		Cali (population 2.3 million) is a city in southwestern Colombia, located on the Cali River.
		It is the capital of the Valle de Cauca department.
		The city was established in 1536 by Sebastian de Benalcazar, and is a major industrial and commercial centre.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/c/ca/cali.html (148 words)

	Sebastian de Benalcazar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		According to various sources, may have left for the New World with Columbus as early as 1498, but José de Castellanos wrote that he killed a mule in 1507, and fled Spain for the West Indies due to fear of punishment, and as a chance to escape the poverty in which he lived.
		What is known for certain is that he entered Nicaragua with Hernandez de Córdoba in 1524, and became the first mayor of the city of León.
		Crossing overland to the Magdalena River Valley, he entered the highlands of central Colombia with Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and Nicolas Federmann, a German, in 1539.
	www.theezine.net /s/sebastian-de-benalcazar.html (426 words)

	Quito, Guayaquil y Cuenca- English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Quito was founded on top of the incan former city by Sebastián de Benalcázar on December 6, 1534.
		Almost three centuries would las the building of the colonial city following the guidelines of the "Leyes de Indias" (Laws applicable to the Indias), which has given way to harmonious architectural components such as arches, atria, walls and stairways that follow the sinuous contour of the land.
		Some of them, those called "guaguas de pan" (dough children in Quichua) are sold on the Day of the Dead (November 2).
	www.consuladoecuadornj.com /quito_guayaquil_y_cuenca_english.htm (1081 words)

	Casa de Benalcazar museum in Quito
		The 6 of December of 1534 the Act of Foundation of San Francisco of Quito was signed, this in honor to the conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
		At the top of the new inhabitants is captain Sebastian de Benalcazar, once the muleteer Sebastian Moyano.
		The construction that can be appreciated at the moment in the corner of the streets Benalcazar and Olmedo is not of the days of the conquest: its construction data of beginnings of century XVIII.
	museums.in-quito.com /quito-museums-benalcazar.htm (249 words)

	Hoy on Line. Detalle de la Noticia
		Antes de partir hacia el sur acompañado de Alvarado, Diego de Almagro fundó el 28 de agosto de 1534 la villa de San Francisco: “porque conviene al servicio de Su Majestad y a la paz y sosiego de estas provincias y conversión de los naturales de ellas”.
		A continuación Almagro eligió sus alcaldes y regidores y nombró a Sebastián de Benalcázar teniente de gobernador, en nombre y con poderes de Francisco Pizarro.
		Así lo indica Fernández de Oviedo: “procuró se le quitase lo de Quito al Marqués Francisco Pizarro, su gobernador, e se le diese a él con título de adelantado e gobernador e capitán general de Quito e otras provincias”.
	www.hoy.com.ec /sf_noticia.asp?row_id=162072 (298 words)

	Ecuador: history
		The Spanish conquistadors commanded by SebastiÃ¡n de BenalcÃ¡zar took advantage of the situation to capture Quito in 1534.
		In 1822, General Antonio JosÃ© de Sucre, BolÃvarâs deputy, defeated the royalist forces in the Battle of Pichincha, thus ending Spanish domination and incorporating Ecuador into BolÃvarâs Greater Colombia scheme.
		Although the Party was ideologically in favor of privatization policies, it had to operate with an eye on its electoral prospects for 1996, so the Government proposals were eventually passed in much reduced versions to avoid having to pay a high political cost.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=15 (3005 words)

	Benalcázar, Sebastián de on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		After accompanying Columbus on his third voyage (1498), Benalcázar served in Darién and Nicaragua before joining Francisco Pizarro in the conquest of Peru (1532).
		Between 1541 and 1548 he aided Vaca de Castro against Diego de Almagro, the younger, and then helped Nuñez Vela and Pedro de la Gasca against Gonzalo Pizarro.
		For executing the leader of a neighboring province that he claimed as his, Benalcázar was tried (1550) and convicted.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Benalcaz.asp (207 words)

	Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		In 1487 it became the northern capital of the Inca Empire.
		The map was drawn by the Spanish cartographer Colonel Antonio Alcedo y Herrera, 1735-1812, in the eighteenth century.
		Santa Ana de Cuenca was founded by the conquistador Gil Ramirez Davalos in 1557 on the ruins of the former residence of the Inca ruler Huayna Capac.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/ecuadorplans.htm (218 words)

	THE SPANISH CONQUEST, Ecuador Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		Sebastián de Benalcázar, meanwhile, had got wind of Alvarado's expedition early on, and swiftly summoned his own forces together, riding across the bleak Peruvian coast onto the Inca highway to Quito.
		In August 1534, the Spanish city of San Francisco de Quito was founded on the charred remains of the Inca capital, and a few months later the northern part of the Inca empire was conquered.
		The inaccessible north coast and much of the Oriente, however, were deemed too difficult and unproductive to colonize, and stayed out of their control for much of the colonial era.
	www.infohub.com /Destinations/South-America/Ecuador/82449.htm (907 words)

	Quito Spanish schools / Learn and Study Spanish in Quito (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Quito: San Francisco de Quito was founded in 1534 by Sebastián de Benalcázar.
		The city was built on the ruins of the old city of Quito, one of the capitals of the Inca Empire, which sits at 2800 m above sea level.
		Miguel de Santiago, Javier de Goribar, Manuel Samaniego and Padre Bedón were other outstanding representatives of this school of art.
	www.surpacifico.k12.ec /siq/siq.html (780 words)

	Sebastián de Belalcázar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Sebastián Moyano de Belalcázar (also spelt Benalcázar) was born in the province of Córdoba, Spain, around 1479.
		Setting out from Piura, he forestalled Pedro de Alvarado in support of Diego de Almagro, the elder, and entered the native stronghold of Quito in 1933.
		Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar, they look in the Junior Woodchucks' Guidebook and find about the meeting of the three men, about the fact that we don't exactly know which bargain has been striked between them and that they went back to Europe.
	goofy313g.free.fr /calisota_online/exist/belalcazar.html (440 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page
		French scientists from the Paris Academy of Science, hoping to take advantage of Ecuador's geological position on the equator, sent two expeditions to Ecuador in the 17th and 18th centuries in order to measure the exact circumference of the earth.
		The city of Quito was founded on December 6 of 1534 by Sebastián de Benalcázar.
		The architecture of Quito is chiefly in the Spanish baroque style.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Quito (1063 words)

	Ecuador Capital Quito a Charmin City Located in The Andes Mountains.
		Quito is Ecuador capital and this lovely city was founded in 1534 by Sebastián de Benalcazar.
		As part of the acculturation of the indigenous people, the Spanish established painting and sculpture schools where Spanish artists trained the indigenous population in the arts.
		The Virgin that stands on the hill, which consists of 7,000 pieces of aluminum, is a modern representation of the famous "Virgen de Quito" (Virgin of Quito).
	www.galapagos-islands-tourguide.com /ecuador-capital.html (1378 words)

	Quito History of Quito Ecuador
		Within a hundred years the empire fell to infighting, leaving things wide open for the newly arrived Spanish to start almost from scratch.
		Sebastian de Benalcázar founded Santiago de Quito on 15 August 1534, and all was well until Pedro de Alvarado arrived after a long, hard march and expressed his, shall we say, disappointment that the city had been started without him.
		The two arranged a truce in which the city was refunded on 6 December as San Francisco de Quito.
	www.inquito.com /history.htm (318 words)

	Piura
		It is the commercial center for the region's cotton, sugarcane, and rice crops.
		San Miguel de Piura, the first settlement in Peru, was founded on the coast by Francisco
		Sebastián de Benalcázar - Benalcázar or Belalcázar, Sebastián de, c.1479–1551, Spanish...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0839234.html (98 words)

	Ikebana Conference -- Welcome Presentacion
		It is one of the most important cities in Latin America, from the historic point of view, with remarkable architectonic beauty, with many colonial constructions like churches and religious convents built during the times of Spanish colonization (around 1600 A.D.), rich in classic and baroque styles.
		The city was founded on December 6th, 1534, by Sebastián de Benalcázar, and is located in a valley close to the Pichincha volcano (still active) which has an altitude of 4794 mt and is the guardian of the city.
		These previous few lines constitute a short introduction of the city where the Conference will take place, a city where the weather is a privilege for its warm and sunny days that have earned Quito the motto of "the city of eternal spring".
	www.ikebanaecuador.com /codigo/welcome/welcome.html (446 words)

	Quito explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Is it is by him first was put yoke on necks of oxen for land of Ireland.
		causeway: Cuire illaim, Put into hand tochra illaim, place (it) into hand aurdairc damrad trathaib iar fuin noble (are) oxen for hours after sunset for trom ailges very heavy request ni fes cuich les it is not known to whom (is) gain cuich amles de thochur dar moin Lamraige.
		Ni biad isin bith tochur bad ferr mani bethe oca There would not be in the world a causeway which is better, if not Thereupon came in rechtaire co Echaid ocus adfet scela in mor fedma, atconnaire the steward to Echaid, and made known tales of the great serving band, power dodrosce de.
	www.wordspider.net /qu/quito.html (1415 words)

	SEBASTIAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Search the SEBASTIAN Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the SEBASTIAN Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named SEBASTIAN at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/S/SEBASTIAN.htm (99 words)

	ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		The main fact of this week is Fiestas de Quito.
		It took place the 6th of December, 1534 and was led by Sebastián de Benalcázar.
		This date marked the beginning of the Spanish presence and gave to the city the category or Hispanic seal, since it existed already as the capital of the kingdom of the indigenous ancestors.
	www.willamette.edu /wits/llc/worldnews/xdec03a/ecuadordanny.html (167 words)

	Timeline of Quito
		Inca city refounded by Sebastian de Benalcazar (Pizarro's lieutenant).City had been destroyed and evacuated by Inca Ruminahui Inca.
		Benalcazar is disappointed that no gold is found in Quito.
		Benalcazar founds Santiago de Guayaquil to provide a harbor to Quito.
	www.csupomona.edu /~amcwhitaker/website/research/latincities/9lcindividualcities/quito/5timelinequito.html (250 words)

	History of Quito Ecuador - Quito History
		The history of modern Quito dates back to December 6, 1534, when Sebastian de Benalcazar, leading the Spanish conquers funded the city and 204 inhabitants settled here.
		The historical downtown that we know today, rich in colonial and republican architecture grew up within these boundaries.
		This fact is evident through the presence of more than 30 convent, churches, and chaples built within Quito's Historical Center.
	www.equaguia.com /quito/history-quito.html (173 words)

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		Colonial Quito was founded by Sebastian de Benalcazar in 1534.
		Following the Conquest the Spaniards began building monasteries and palatial mansions that made Quito a center of artistic achievement; one recognized internationally when it was named a World Heritage Site.
		The cost of living is still reasonable, compared to other South American capitals.
	www.inlinguaquito.com.ec /Ecuador/about.html (115 words)

	The Bronx Journal Online-World Cities Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Named for the peaceful Quitu Indians, Quito was an important Inca city until the Spanish conquistadors razed it in the late 15th century.
		Sebastian de Benalcazar founded the present capital on the ruins of the Inca city in 1534, building churches, convents and palaces in the exuberant style of the Latin American baroque.
		Quito's old town is so fabulous that in 1978, UNESCO named it a World Cultural Heritage Site.
	www.lehman.cuny.edu /depts/langlit/tbj/oct99/ecuador.htm (559 words)

	Hostelling Ecuador :: Backpacker & Youth Accommodation
		The city has its annual festival in December, when festivities such as bullfights, the election of the Queen of Quito, national and international concerts, street dances, and fireworks turn Quito into the site of a national gala for an entire week.
		The celebrations are in honor of founding of Quito on December 6, 1534 by Sebástian de Benalcázar.
		Mariscal Sucre International Airport is located 5 Km (3.2 miles) from the HI taxi ride from the airport is between US$3-5.
	www.hostelling-ecuador.org /spanish/Templates/Home.dwt (153 words)

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