Captain Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda 1519 is the first Spaniard credited with first seeing what would become Texas.
http://americanfrontiers.net/explorers/History3.php
http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/publications/exploration/chaptereleven.htm
well, there are many people who explored Texas, but the first spaniard is JohnLewis- common name right?visit www.johnlewis.com and you will see.
Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda mapped the 377 mile Texas coastline.
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, in 1519.
That would be the Pacific Ocean.
Giovanni da Verrazano was a Florentine explorer, he was at the service of the government of France and he is remembered as the first European explorer who reached and adventured into the territory of North America, he walked along the coast located between the Carolinas and Newfoundland.
In 1442, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sails along the California coast. He is the first European explorer to navigate this coast. In 1769-1770, the Portola expedition sails along the coast as well as lands and explores the present-day state of California.
It was not an explorer that coined the term 'New World', it was actually the Spanish scholar Peter Martyr d'Anghiera who first coined the term 'New World' (novi orbis) in a letter dated November 1st, 1492 in which he referred to Columbus first voyage to America
Many explorers were not from Spain. For example, the Vikings, some of the first explorers, were from Greenland. In addition, Portugal also invested heavily in explorers like Vasco De Gama.
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Balboa
He provided Spain with the first accurate map of the Texas coast.
Pizarro was the first Spanish explorer to reach Peru and conquer the Inca Empire.
Francisco Vazquez de Coronado (1510 - September 22 1554).
The spainerds
The first conquistador to observe the Texas Gulf Coast was Alvarez de Pineda.
Cactus and beaners.
Cattle was first brought to Texas by explorers from Spain or the Spanish.
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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
he wasnt the first