USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -PINEDA’S REPORT AND DETAILED MAP WERE FORWARDED TO GOVERNOR GARAY AND THEN TO KING CHARLES I OF SPAIN. ALTHOUGH PINEDA’S EXPEDITION WAS A FAILURE IN THAT HE FOUND NO PASSAGE TO THE ORIENT, IT DID ENCOURAGE FURTHER EXPLORATION ALONG THE GULF COAST THAT LED TO COLONIZATION BY SPANIARDS AND OTHER EUROPEANS.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -In 1519, the explorer Alonso Álvarez de Piñeda became the first European to map the Texas Gulf Coast.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.