Don Juan de Onate, Inscriptions on Rock, El Morro National Monument

Don Juan de Onate, El Morro National Monument

Reads (with some abbreviations)

Paso por aqui el adelantado Don Juan de Onate del descubrimiento
del Mar del Sur el 16 de abril de 1605

Here passed by the Governor-General Don Juan de Onate, from the discovery of
of the Sea of the South, the 16th of April, 1605

The Sea of the South was the Gulf of California -- and he wasn't the first
Spaniard to see it.

Canon 5D, 24 - 105 mm IS @ 58 mm

Size of Original: 4368 x 2912 pixels

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