Croatian Mexicans
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Croatian Mexicans (Croato-mexicanos, Croata mexicanos) are
History
The Croatian sailor and soldier, Vinko Paletin, joined the expedition that was led by Francisco de Montejo in the Yucatán Peninsula. As a member of the Mexican Dominican Province of Santiago Paletin, he was in Mexico preparing a Monetary from Santo Domingo to be a priest. Eventually, in the late summer of 1546 he returned to Europe.
In the 18th century the Croatian Jesuit missionary Fernando Consag (Mexico: Fernando Consag) has become one of the most famous researchers on the Mexican peninsula of Baja California. He proved that California was a peninsula. Konščak was a distinguished mathematician, astronomer, naturalist, geologist, builder of roads and embankments, and the supervisor of all the Jesuit reductions in Mexico. Small Mexican island Roca Consag was named after him.[1]
The Croatian Jesuit missionary Ivan Ratkaj arrived in the present Mexican state of Chihuahua in 1680. He has written three reports on his journey, landscape, as well as on the life, nature and customs of the indigenous people. These are the oldest descriptions of this region. It is also made up of many details. With his third travel book, Ratkaj attached a map of the province marked with latitude and longitude, parts of the world, mission stations and Spanish forts, habitats of Indian tribes, and provincial rivers and mountains. It is also one of the first mapping works by Croatian authors, and the oldest map of the Mexican province. Map was made in 1683 as a drawing on paper. The original is preserved in the central archives of the Jesuits in Rome. Small copy was published by EJ Burrus in La Obra de la Provincia Cartografico Mexicana de la Compañía de Jesús, 1567–1967, Madrid, 1967, p II. Letter No. 16.[2][3]
In 1926, on November 1, the Hotel Kuraica was inaugurated, owned by a Croatian immigrant Pablo Kuraica (Pavo Kurajica) and his wife Elia Casillas Millán.
Originally from
In 1991 after the outbreak of the War in Yugoslavia some Croatian families emigrated to Mexico as refugees.
Notable people
- Gabriela Spanic, Mexican-Venezuelan actress of Croatian origin
- Geraldine Bazan, actress of Croatian descent
- Luis Roberto Alves, commentator and former soccer player
- Antonio Castellanos, sculptor
- Moisés Jinich, football forward
- Fran Meric, actress, host and model
- Enrique Novi, actor
- Víctor Manuel Vucetich, former professional footballer and manager
See also
- Croatia–Mexico relations
- Croats
- List of Croats
References
- ^ Franjo Šanjek: Prilozi za biografiju Vinka Paletina, CCP, 9/1982, p. 94–95.
- ^ M. Korade: Ivan Ratkaj (1647.-1683.), Missionary i istraživač u Meksiku, u: Vrela i prinosi, Zbornik za povijest isusovačkoga reda u hrvatskim krajevima. Filozofsko-teološki institut Družbe Isusove, Zagreb 1990/91, no. 18, p. 132-167.
- ^ M. Korade: Kartografija i putopisi, Portret Ivana Ratkaja, Zemljovid pokrajine Tarahumare, u: Znanost u Hrvata, I. dio, katalog izložbe. MGC, Zagreb 1996, p. 184, 187, 188.
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