Domingo Martínez de Irala | Spanish explorer | Britannica (original) (raw)

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exploration of Argentina

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  In Argentina: Discovery and settlement
  …under Juan de Ayolas and Domingo Martínez de Irala, lieutenants of Mendoza, pushed a thousand miles up the Plata and Paraguay rivers. Ayolas was lost on an exploring expedition, but Irala founded Asunción (now in Paraguay) among the Guaraní, a largely settled agricultural people. In 1541 the few remaining inhabitants…
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overthrow of Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

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  In Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
  …usurped by a rebel governor, Domingo Martinez de Irala, who imprisoned him and had him deported to Spain (1545), where he was convicted of malfeasance in office and banished to service in Africa. His La relación y comentarios… (1555), describing his journey from Santos to Asunción, is a valuable geographic…
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settlement of Paraguay

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  In Paraguay: Colonial period
  …colonial settlements were established by Domingo Martínez de Irala in the period 1536–56. The first Spanish colonists, unsuccessful in their search for gold, settled peacefully among the Guaraní in the region of Asunción, the present capital of Paraguay. Those first settlers established their notorious harems of Guaraní women, and their…
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