# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gaspar-perez-de-villagra
# Generated: 2026-08-15T23:11:23.540Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gaspar-perez-de-villagra"
name: "Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá"
slug: "gaspar-perez-de-villagra"
description: "Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá (1555–1620) was a captain and legal officer in the Juan de Oñate expedition that first colonized Santa Fe de Nuevo México in 1598. Between 1601 and 1603, he served as the Alcalde mayor of the Guanacevi mines in what is now the Mexican state of Durango. He is better known for his authorship of Historia de la Nueva México, published in 1610."
tagline: "Spanish explorer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gaspar_P%C3%A9rez_de_Villagr%C3%A1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1555"
deathDate: "1620"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.19
  momentum:             8.4375
  historical:           4.138373333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_P%C3%A9rez_de_Villagr%C3%A1"
    title: "Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_P%C3%A9rez_de_Villagr%C3%A1"
    title: "Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_P%C3%A9rez_de_Villagr%C3%A1"
    title: "Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_P%C3%A9rez_de_Villagr%C3%A1"
    title: "Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1630645"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump