Andrés de Urdaneta

Andrés de Urdaneta (Ordizia, Spain, November 30, 1498 – June 3, 1568, Mexico City) is a circumnavigator, explorer and Augustinian friar.

As a navigator he achievei in 1528 the second world circumnavigation after first one led by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano in 1522.

Urdaneta discovers and plots a path across the Pacific from the Philippines to Acapulco, Mexico (New Spain), which comse to be known as "Urdaneta's route."

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