Juan Bautista de Anza

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On the trail of the Spanish explorers forgotten

With the support of the Spanish Geographical Society, the writer and traveler Miquel Silvestre, contributor to this magazine, begins a motorcycle expedition around the world, to last more than year and a half, on the trail of the Spanish explorers who were strangers to show, how were the sights they saw and how they look now.

The unknown area of ??the Spanish explorers of California

Juan Bautista de Anza was born in 1763 in the current Mexico, near Arizpe. The son of a Spanish soldier killed by Apaches, Young enlisted in the Army. With 24 years and was captain. Featured in what is now Arizona, requested permission from the Viceroy of New Spain to attempt an overland route to California. And 1774 marched 20 soldiers, 3 priests and 140 horses through the desert bare and unknown, Yuma Indian Territory and rattlesnakes.
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