Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera
Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera | |
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Sevilla, Spain | |
| Died | 17 August 1574 (aged 53–54) Santiago del Estero, Viceroyalty of Peru (Present-day Argentina) |
| Allegiance |  Spain |
| Rank | Conquistador |
Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera (Sevilla, Spain, 1528 – Santiago del Estero, 17 August 1574) was a Spanish conquistador, early colonial governor over much of what today is northwestern Argentina, and founder of the city of Córdoba.
Life and times
Cabrera was born in
Ica and Nazca, and following a post in the capital, Lima, he was appointed in 1571 corregidor of Potosí.[1]
Towards the end of 1571, Cabrera was designated
Suquía River, around 250 mi (400 km) south of Santiago de Estero. Given the privilege of naming the settlement, Cabrera named it Córdoba de la Nueva Andalucía, in honor of his wife's birthplace.[1]
Cabrera enjoyed relatively good relations with the area's native inhabitants, the
Comechingones, and proved an able administrator of the new settlement, which within a year counted with the basic legal and administrative institutions of a stable village. He departed towards the east on his own initiative in 1574 and quickly reached the shores of the Paraná River, over 200 mi (320 km) away, establishing the Fort of San Luis (near what today is Santa Fe, Argentina). Founding the Viceroyalty of Perú's first viable beach-head towards the Atlantic Ocean (via the highly-navigable Paraná), the feat met with the rivalry of Captain Juan de Garay, who had been sent down the river from Asunción with orders from the Viceroy to do the same.[2]
The ensuing dispute was judged by an official arbiter,
born to Spanish nobility, Cabrera was taken to Lima, where he was executed by decapitation on 17 August 1574.[1]
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