Don Juan de Oñate y Salazar (1550–1626) was a Spanish Conquistador explorer and colonial governor of the Santa Fe de Nuevo México province 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 within the province and in the present day American Southwest.
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