Andrés de Urdaneta

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Friar Andrés de Urdaneta, OSA, (November 30, 1498 – June 3, 1568) was a Spanish Basque circumnavigator, explorer and Augustinian friar. As a navigator he achieved in 1536 the "second" world circumnavigation (after the first one led by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano and their crew in 1522). Urdaneta discovered and plotted a path across the Pacific from the Philippines to Acapulco in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (present day Mexico) used by the Manila galleons, which came to be known as "Urdaneta's route". He was considered as "protector of the Indians" for his treatment of the Filipino natives; also Cebu and the Philippines' first prelate.^[1]^[2]

The Spanish Manila-Acapulco galleon (Tornaviaje) trade finally began when Urdaneta discovered the eastward route in 1565, from the Spanish East Indies (Philippines) to New Spain(México).

Andrés de Urdaneta (1498-1568) was a 16th century Spanish explorer, navigator, geographer, and scientist.
The Pacific galleons' ports were Cavite and Acapulco, then goods went overland in México to/from the port of Veracruz and Atlantic Flota de Indias galleons to/from the Casa de Contratación in Seville, and after 1717 in Cadiz, Spain.

Read ANDRES DE URDANETA AND THE RETURN VOYAGE

Read THE VOYAGE OF FRAY ANDRES DE URDANETA by Peter Jaynul Uckung at http://nhcp.gov.ph/the-voyage-of-fray-andres-de-urdaneta/

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