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Luis de Velasco

viceroy of New Spain

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association with Legazpi

In Miguel López de Legazpi
…had been made there, so Luis de Velasco, the viceroy of New Spain, sent Legazpi to claim it in 1564. He left Acapulco with five ships and reached Cebu, one of the southern islands of the archipelago, in April 1565, founding the first Spanish settlement on the site of modern…
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estimate of Indian population

In North America: The North American Indian heritage
Luis de Velasco, a 16th-century viceroy of New Spain (Mexico), put the total for the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America at about 5,000,000; some modern scholars, however, have suggested a figure two to five times larger for the year 1492. The pre-Columbian population of…
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