The Most Famous
EXPLORERS from Mexico
This page contains a list of the greatest Mexican Explorers. The pantheon dataset contains 498 Explorers, 1 of which were born in Mexico. This makes Mexico the birth place of the 49th most number of Explorers behind South Africa, and Slovenia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mexican Explorers of all time. This list of famous Mexican Explorers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Juan de Oñate (b. 1550)
With an HPI of 56.03, Juan de Oñate is the most famous Mexican Explorer. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Juan de Oñate y Salazar (Spanish: [ˈxwan de oˈɲate] ; 1550–1626) was a Spanish conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and viceroy of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain. He led early Spanish expeditions to the Great Plains and Lower Colorado River Valley, encountering numerous indigenous tribes in their homelands there. Oñate founded settlements in the province, now in the Southwestern United States. Oñate is notorious for the 1599 Ácoma Massacre. Following a dispute that led to the ambush and death of thirteen Spaniards at the hands of the Ácoma, including Oñate's nephew, Juan de Zaldívar, Oñate ordered a brutal retaliation against Acoma Pueblo. The pueblo was destroyed. Around 800–1000 Ácoma were killed. Today, Oñate remains a controversial figure in New Mexican history: in 1998, the right foot was cut off a statue of the conquistador that stands in Alcalde, New Mexico, in protest of the massacre, and significant controversy arose when a large equestrian statue of Oñate was erected in El Paso, Texas, in 2006. On June 15, 2020, the statue of Oñate in Alcalde, New Mexico was temporarily removed by Rio Arriba County workers at the direction of officials. Civic institutions will make the final decision on the statue's future.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Mexican explorers born between 1550 and 1550. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Mexican explorers include Juan de Oñate. As of April 2024, 1 new Mexican explorers have been added to Pantheon including Juan de Oñate.
