Francisco de Viedma and Narvaez ( Spanish Francisco de Biedma y Narváez , June 11, 1737 - June 28, 1809) - Spanish explorer and colonial administrator.
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- This person has a Spanish last name; here Viedma is the surname of the father, Narvaes is the surname of the mother.
Biography
Born in 1737 in Jaen .
In the second half of the 18th century, Viceroy of Rio de la Plata sent an expedition led by Juan de la Piedra to establish forts and colonies on the coast of Patagonia . On December 15, 1778, the expedition left Montevideo , and on January 7, 1779, arrived in San Jose Bay on the northern coast of the Valdez Peninsula (San Jose Bay itself is the southern part of the much larger San Matias Bay ). There, Juan de la Piedra left a garrison led by Francisco de Viedma for the construction of .
Managing the construction of the fort, Viedma also organized a series of reconnaissance expeditions to explore the region between the Valdez Peninsula and the mouth of the Rio Negro River . In addition, he organized expeditions to St. Julian's Bay on the coast of the modern Argentinean province of Santa Cruz . The information obtained as a result of his expeditions, he described in a report entitled "Description of the southern coast of the south, colloquially called Patagonia" ( Spanish Descripción de la costa meridional del sur, llamada vulgarmente patagónica ).
In April 1779, Francisco de Viedma, along with began the construction of a fort on the right bank of the Rio Negro River, called Mercedes de Patagonones. The river spill in June led to the fact that the fort (but the settlement that did not grow around it) was moved to the left, higher bank; the new fort was named Carmen de Patagones . Thus, two settlements arose at the mouth of the Rio Negro River. On October 21, 1878, the first governor of Patagonia, renamed Mercedes de Patagones in honor of its founder - this is how the city of Viedma appeared.
In June 1785, Francisco de Viedma was appointed governor of the newly created . There, in Cochabamba, he died in 1809.