Captain Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda 1519 is the first Spaniard credited with first seeing what would become Texas.
http://americanfrontiers.net/explorers/History3.php
http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/publications/exploration/chaptereleven.htm
That would be the Pacific Ocean.
Giovanni da Verrazano was a Florentine explorer, he was at the service of the government of France and he is remembered as the first European explorer who reached and adventured into the territory of North America, he walked along the coast located between the Carolinas and Newfoundland.
In 1442, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sails along the California coast. He is the first European explorer to navigate this coast. In 1769-1770, the Portola expedition sails along the coast as well as lands and explores the present-day state of California.
It was not an explorer that coined the term 'New World', it was actually the Spanish scholar Peter Martyr d'Anghiera who first coined the term 'New World' (novi orbis) in a letter dated November 1st, 1492 in which he referred to Columbus first voyage to America
Many explorers were not from Spain. For example, the Vikings, some of the first explorers, were from Greenland. In addition, Portugal also invested heavily in explorers like Vasco De Gama.
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He provided Spain with the first accurate map of the Texas coast.
British Columbia was first discovered by the Spanish explorer, Juan Perez, in 1774. However, it was the British explorer, James Cook, who first set foot on the west coast of British Columbia in 1778.
Pizarro was the first Spanish explorer to reach Peru and conquer the Inca Empire.
Francisco Vazquez de Coronado (1510 - September 22 1554).
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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was a Portuguese explorer who sailed for Spain. He is known for being the first European explorer to navigate the coast of present-day California. Cabrillo's voyage in 1542 helped establish Spanish presence on the West Coast of North America.
The first conquistador to observe the Texas Gulf Coast was Alvarez de Pineda.
Cactus and beaners.
Cattle was first brought to Texas by explorers from Spain or the Spanish.
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