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Gaspar de Portolá

1716 - 1786

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Gaspar de Portolá y Rovira (Catalan: Gaspar de Portolà i Rovira; January 1, 1716 – October 10, 1786) was a Spanish military officer, best known for leading the Portolá expedition into California and for serving as the first Governor of the Californias. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaspar de Portolá has received more than 231,001 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gaspar de Portolá is the 355th most popular explorer (down from 334th in 2019), the 1,292nd most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,176th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Spanish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Gaspar de Portolá ranks 355 out of 405. Before him are Ivan Moskvitin, Edward Belcher, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón, Dirk Hartog, Louise Arner Boyd, and Alexander Fersman. After him are George Kennan, Vasily Chichagov, Sámuel Teleki, Étienne Brûlé, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, and Teoberto Maler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Gaspar de Portolá ranks 19. Before him are Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Otto von Münchhausen, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Capability Brown, and Jean François de Saint-Lambert. After him is George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville. Among people deceased in 1786, Gaspar de Portolá ranks 20. Before him are Thomas Wright, Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Pierre Poivre, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, and Nathanael Greene. After him are Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch and William Duesbury.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gaspar de Portolá ranks 1,292 out of 2,932. Before him are Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón (1500), Enrique Morente (1942), Conchita Martínez (1972), Rosario Flores (1963), Carolina Coronado (1820), and María Teresa León (1903). After him are Fernando de Santiago (1910), José Iraragorri (1912), Cristóbal Halffter (1930), José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa (1743), Arcadio Larraona Saralegui (1887), and Gregorio Marañón (1887).

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Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Gaspar de Portolá ranks 49. Before him are Juan Fernández (1536), Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548), Félix de Azara (1742), Francisco de Ulloa (1501), Pascual de Andagoya (1495), and Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón (1500). After him are Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (1478).

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