Gaspar de Portolà

Spanish soldier, governor of Baja and Alta California; explorer and founder of San Diego and Monterey

1716 CE to 1784 CE

Gaspar de Portolà i Rovira (1716–1784) is a Spanish soldier, governor of Baja and Alta California (1767–1770), explorer and founder of San Diego and Monterey.

He was born in Os de Balaguer, province of Lleida, in Catalonia, Crown of Aragon, of Catalan nobility.

Don Gaspar serves as a soldier in the Spanish army in Italy and Portugal.

He is commissioned ensign in 1734, and lieutenant in 1743, and died in Spain in 1784.

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