Andr%C3%A9s de Urdaneta

Friar Andrs de Urdaneta, O.S.A., was a Spanish Basque circumnavigator, explorer and Augustinian friar. As a navigator he achieved in 1536 the second world circumnavigation . Urdaneta discovered and plotted a path across the Pacific from the Philippines to Acapulco in the Viceroyalty of New Spain used by the Manila galleons, which came to be known as Urdanetas route. He was considered as protector of the Indians for his treatment of the Filipino natives also Cebu and the Philippines first prelate.

Urdaneta was born in the town of Ordizia, Spain. He would have gone to sea at a young age, as was typical of the time.

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