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Spanish period: An enlargeable map of the United States after the Adams–Onís Treaty took effect in 1821. Mexican period: An enlargeable map showing Alta California Territory (black) after the 1824 Constitution of Mexico. Mexican period: Political divisions of Mexico as altered by Las Siete Leyes.
Present-day Baja California of Mexico was misrepresented in early maps as an island.This example c. 1650. Restored. The first European explorers, flying the flags of Spain and of England, sailed along the coast of California from the early 16th century to the mid-18th century, but no European settlements were established.
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
Historical map of Spanish North America Map of Spanish America c. 1800 Diagram of Pueblo of Santa Barbara, California (Walter A. Hawley, 1910) U.S. post office application from 1866 shows the four square Spanish leagues of the pre-statehood Los Angeles Pueblo Provincias Ynternas de Nueva España mapped in 1817
Spanish explorers claimed land for the crown in the modern-day states of Alabama, Arizona, the Carolinas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, and California. [43] Puerto Rico was also colonized by the Spanish during this era, occasioning the earliest contact between Africans and what would become the United States (via ...
Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, [a] was a province of New Spain formally established in 1804. Along with the Baja California peninsula , it had previously comprised the province of Las Californias , but was made a separate province in 1804 (named Nueva California ). [ 1 ]
Pacheco Adobe, built 1835 by Salvio Pacheco on Rancho Monte del Diablo The Guajome Adobe, built 1852–53 as the seat of Rancho Guajome. In Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California, ranchos were concessions and land grants made by the Spanish and Mexican governments from 1775 [1] to 1846.
The Province of Las Californias (Spanish: Provincia de las Californias) was a Spanish Empire province in the northwestern region of New Spain.Its territory consisted of the entire U.S. states of California, Nevada, and Utah, parts of Arizona, Wyoming, and Colorado, and the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur.