Luis de Moscoso

Luis de Moscoso, (Badajoz, Spain- 1505 - Peru1551) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador.

biography

Luis de Moscoso Alvarado was born in Badajoz, Spain in 1505. He was the nephew of the also Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado, who had excelled in the conquests of Mexico and Central America. In the Americas, accompanying his uncle Pedro de Alvarado, he participated in the conquest of present Mexico,Guatemala and El Salvador. In 1530 he was sent by his uncle to found a colony in present eastern El Salvador. On May 8, 1530 founded the town of San Miguel de la Frontera, San Miguel Department current. In 1534, he traveled to Peru with his uncle Pedro de Alvarado, where they embarked on an expedition that took them through what is now Ecuador. Subsequently sent by his uncle, he continued with the current exploration of Ecuador, where he discovered several tribes in the Manabí Province.

Returning to Peru he teamed up with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, but the discord between Diego de Almagro and Francisco Pizarro had him and Hernando de Soto returned to Spain in 1536. In Spain, they lost their wealth acquired in the Americas which made return to this continent. They traveled along with all the army of Hernando de Soto on April 7, 1538 to Florida, where he explored the Mississippi River north of the exploration and Hernando de Soto died on May 21, 1542, in the current leaving Arkansas. Luis Moscoso by his army.

Luis de Moscoso de Soto with the army marched west possibly reaching northwest Louisiana and then march to the west coming to Texas and back again to the Mississippi River from where he sailed with his army to the Pánuco River. From this river traveled to Mexico City, where he wrote two letters to the king of Spain and where she married her cousin Leonor de Alvarado, the daughter of Pedro de Alvarado.

In Mexico he entered the service of the viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, and accompanied him to Peru in 1550. Luis Moscoso died in this place in 1551.

Sources

• Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/MM/fmo71.html (accessed May 8, 2010).