| LC control no. | n 84203414 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Portolá, Gaspar de |
| Variant(s) | De Portolá, Gaspar Portolá y de Rovira, Gaspar de Rovira, Gaspar de Portolá y de |
| Birth date | 1716-01-01 |
| Death date | 1786-10 |
| Place of birth | Lérida (Spain : Province) |
| Place of death | Lérida (Spain) |
| Profession or occupation | Soldiers Explorers |
| Found in | Boneu Companys, F. Gaspar de Portolá, 1983: t.p. (Gaspar de Portolá, explorer and founder of California) p. 15 (Gaspar de Portolá y de Rovira) Wikipedia, July 16, 2020 (Gaspar de Portolá; Gaspar de Portolá i Rovira (spelled in Catalan as Portolà and in Spanish as Portolá; 1716-1786) was a Spanish soldier and administrator in service to the Spanish Empire in the Viceroyalty of New Spain; as commander of the Portolá expedition on land and sea that established San Diego and Monterey, Portolá expanded New Spain's Las Californias province far to the north from its beginnings on the Baja California peninsula; Portolá's expedition included the first Europeans to report on seeing and recording what we now call San Francisco Bay; his expedition gave names to geographic features along the way, many of which are still in use; Portolá was born on January 1, 1716 in Os de Balaguer, in Catalonia, Spain, of Catalan nobility; he died in October 1786 in Lleida, Spain) |
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