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Portuguese navigators reached ever more southerly latitudes, advancing at an average rate of one degree a year. [18] Senegal and Cape Verde Peninsula were reached in 1445. In the same year, the first overseas feitoria (trading post) was established under Henry's direction, on the island of Arguin off the coast of Mauritania.
The Portuguese feitorias were mostly fortified trading posts settled in coastal areas, built to centralize and thus dominate the local trade of products with the Portuguese kingdom (and thence to Europe).
Ruy de Sequeira (c. 1460 – c. 1530) was a Portuguese explorer, navigator, and cartographer during the Age of Discovery. [1] He played a crucial role in expanding Portuguese influence, establishing trade routes, and contributing to the exploration of new territories.
For instance, a Spanish map from 1548 depicts California as a peninsula, [8] while a 1622 Dutch map depicts California as an island. [citation needed] A 1626 Portuguese map depicts the land as a peninsula, [citation needed] while a 1630 British map depicts it as an island. [9] A French map from 1682 only shows the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
The "island" of California, from a map circa 1650. Restored. Ulloa's discoveries of 1539 were apparently still secret. In 1539, Francisco de Ulloa under commission from the Viceroyalty of New Spain and New Spain (Mexico) conqueror, Hernán Cortés, explored the Gulf of California to the Colorado River—establishing Baja California as a peninsula.
How Portugal's long shadow has become so influential in Central Valley and California politics. How California's Portuguese community may tip the balance of power in Congress Skip to main content
The 2023 preprint also presents a 1604 California Spanish-based map, made by the Florentine cartographer Matteo di Jacopo Neroni da Peccioli, where the toponym Cabrilho's Bay (B. de Cabrilho) shows at nearly 40 degrees north. The navigator's name is written in the Portuguese form (with lh) for the first time in any known map of that period.
Therese Mascardo, 39 Psychologist Moved from Santa Monica to Lisbon. Portugal is, in so many ways, all of the things I love about California: great weather, beautiful nature, amazing food, but ...