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Legazpi

Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador who founded the Spanish colony in the Philippines

Miguel López de Legazpi

In 1569, due to scarcity of food provisions in Cebu, Legazpi transferred to Panay and founded a second settlement on the bank of the Panay River.

Pudentiana

The Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi, who founded the city of Manila in 1571, gained possession of the territory on 19 May of that year, the feast of this saint (in Spanish "Potenciana"), and declared her patron saint of what is now the Philippines.

Volta do mar

The discovery, upon which the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade was based was owing to the Spanish Andrés de Urdaneta, who, sailing in convoy under Miguel López de Legazpi, discovered the return route in 1565: the fleet split up, some heading south, but Urdaneta reasoned that the trade winds of the Pacific might move in a gyre as the Atlantic winds did.

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