USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Alonso Álvarez de Piñeda (Spanish: [piˈneða]; 1494–1520) was a Spanish conquistador and cartographer who was the first to prove the insularity of the Gulf of Mexico by sailing around its coast. In doing so he created the first map to depict what is now Texas and parts of the Gulf Coast of the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alonso Alvarez de Pineda was the Spanish explorer who first mapped the coastline of Texas. Alvarez de Pineda left Jamaica in early 1519 and sailed west to follow the northern coastline of the Gulf. He sailed west from the Florida Keys to hug the Gulf Coast.

Detailed explanation-3: -PINEDA FOLLOWED THE COAST FROM WHAT IS NOW WESTERN FLORIDA TO PRESENT DAY VERA CRUZ, MEXICO. DURING HIS 9-MONTH EXPEDITION HE MAPPED NEARLY 800 MILES OF SHORELINE, INCLUDING THE RIVERS AND BAYS THAT EMPTIED INTO THE GULF.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the very first known maps of Texas and the Gulf Coast region was drawn by the Spanish explorer and cartographer, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda. In 1519 he led an expedition from Santiago (today’s Jamaica) with the intent to map an area from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Panuco River, near present-day Tampico, Mexico.

Detailed explanation-5: -Alonso Álvarez de Pineda commanded a Spanish expedition that sailed along the Gulf of Mexico coastline from Florida to Cabo Rojo, Mexico, in 1519. He and his men were the first Europeans to explore and map the Gulf littoral between the areas previously explored by Juan Ponce De León and Diego Velázquez.