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The Manila–Acapulco Galleon Memorial at Plaza Mexico in Intramuros, Manila. The westward route from Mexico passed south of Hawaii, making a short stopover in Guam before heading for Manila. The exact route was kept secret to protect the Spanish trade monopoly against competing powers, and to avoid Dutch and English pirates.
A group of American beachcombers found porcelains on a beach in Mexico. A 1997 exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art included some of the porcelain fragments. . The associated publication, Chinese Ceramics in Colonial Mexico, led Saryl and Edward Von der Porten to believe that there must be an unknown Manila galleon wreck on the Baja California c
The city of Manila served as a primary outpost of the exchange of goods between the Americas, Japan, India, Indonesia and China. [30] However, a large amount of silver was transported across the vast Pacific Ocean directly from the Americas as well, via the Manila Galleons . [ 28 ]
Northerly trade route as used by eastbound Manila galleons. On July 12, 1596, the Spanish ship San Felipe set sail from Manila to Acapulco under captain Matías de Landecho with a cargo that was estimated to be worth over 1 million pesos. [7] This relatively late departure of the Manila galleon meant San Felipe sailed during the Pacific typhoon ...
Filipinos first arrived in Mexico during the Spanish colonial period via the Manila-Acapulco Galleon.For two and a half centuries, between 1565 and 1815, many Filipinos and Mexicans sailed to and from Mexico and the Philippines as sailors, crews, slaves, prisoners, adventurers and soldiers in the Manila-Acapulco Galleon assisting Spain in its trade between Asia and the Americas. [4]
The discovery, upon which the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade was based, is owed to the Spanish Andrés de Urdaneta, who, sailing in convoy under Miguel López de Legazpi, discovered the return route in 1565: the fleet split up, some heading south, but Urdaneta reasoned that the trade winds of the Pacific might move in a gyre as the Atlantic ...
Reception of the Manila galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, Boxer Codex (c. 1590). With the Portuguese guarding access to the Indian Ocean around the Cape, a monopoly supported by papal bulls and the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spanish contact with the Far East waited until the success of the 1519–1522 Magellan–Elcano expedition that found a Southwest Passage around South America ...
Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación y Desengaño, nicknamed Desengaño, was a Manila galleon which plied the trade routes between the Viceroyalty of New Spain and the Spanish Philippines. The ship was captured on 22 December 1709 by a British privateering expedition led by Woodes Rogers and renamed Bachelor .