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Pedro del Castillo (1521 - 28 March 1569) was a Spanish conquistador. ==Biography== He was born at Villalba de Rioja. After acting as ''corregidor'' in some recently founded American towns, he was in Chile at the orders of Francisco de Villagra, with whom he took part in the Arauco War.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=When Pedro del Castillo founded Mendoza )〕 In November 1560 he was appointed by the governor of Chile, García Hurtado de Mendoza, as ''capitán general y teniente gobernador para poblar, fundar, repartir tierras y encomendar indios en la provincia de Cuyo'' (commander-in-chief and plenipotentiary for the province of Cuyo), in what is now western Argentina. Castillo organized and expedition that crossed the Andes, passing through the Aconcagua and Uspallata velleys, reaching the Huentata valley on 22 February. On 2 March 1561 Pedro del Castillo founded the city of Mendoza. Some time later he was sent to Lima, Peru, and afterwards he established himself in Panama. He died in Panama City in 1569. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pedro del Castillo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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