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Hernando de Alarcón, a
Spanish navigator of the
16th century, noted for having led an early expedition to the peninsula of
Baja California, meant to be coordinated with
Francisco Vasquéz de Coronado's overland expedition, and for penetrating the lower
Colorado River, perhaps as far as the modern California-Arizona boundary.
Little is known about Alarcón's life outside of his expedition in
New Spain. He set sail on
May 9,
1540 with orders from the Spanish Viceroy
Antonio de Mendoza to await at a certain point on the coast the arrival of an expedition by land under the command of Coronado.
He sailed into the
Gulf of California, which had been explored the previous summer by
Francisco de Ulloa. He made a careful survey of the coast, and on
26 September ascended the
Colorado River (then called the Río del Tizón or Río de Buena Guía) for 85 Spanish miles, being the first European to do so. The meeting with Coronado wasn't effected, however, although Alarcón reached the appointed place and left letters, which were soon afterwards found by
Melchior Diaz, another explorer.
Ulloa and Alarcón were the first to determine that Baja California was a peninsula and not an island, as had been supposed at the time of its initial discovery. Upon Alarcón's return to New Spain in
1541 he prepared a more accurate
map of California depicting it correctly as a peninsula. Subsequent sixteenth century maps accepted these findings, the notion of the
Island of California arose again in the seventeenth century and persisted on many European maps well into the eighteenth century.
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