Hernán Pérez de Quesada
Spanish conquistador in Colombia · Spain · Lived 1515 to 1544 · aged 29
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Something wrong?Hernán Pérez de Quesada, sometimes spelled as Quezada, was a Spanish conquistador. Second in command of the army of his elder brother, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Hernán was part of the first European expedition towards the inner highlands of the Colombian Andes.
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Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada was Hernán's elder brother and commander of the conquest of the New Kingdom of Granada.
Map of exploration routes in Colombia. Hernán Pérez de Quesada accompanied his elder brother along the green route from 1536 to 1538. Between 1540 and 1542 Hernán first went north of Sogamoso and then southeast to Caquetá and Putumayo and southwest through northern Peru, terminating in Quito. Hernán and his younger brother Francisco died in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Cabo de la Vela, the northeastern peninsula of Colombia
When the expedition into the heart of Colombia of Gonzalo and Hernán de Quesada reached Chipatá, at the border of Guane and Muisca territories, the curious but cautious indigenous people provided the conquistadors with fresh cotton mantles for their journey into the Altiplano Cundiboyacense
Hernán and Francisco de Quesada died of a lightning strike offshore the northeastern Colombian desert Cabo de la VelaFamily
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Hernán Pérez de Quesada, sometimes spelled as Quezada, was a Spanish conquistador. Second in command of the army of his elder brother, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Hernán was part of the first European expedition towards the inner highlands of the Colombian Andes. The harsh journey, taking almost a year and many deaths, led through the modern departments Magdalena, Cesar, Santander, Boyacá, Cundinamarca and Huila of present-day Colombia between 1536 and 1539 and, without him, Meta, Caquetá and Putumayo of Colombia and northern Peru and Ecuador between 1540 and 1542.
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