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Juan de Oñate



Oñate, Juan de (c.1549–1628), Spanish explorer of the American southwest. He colonized what is now New Mexico from 1598. He led expeditions to the Wichita area of present-day Kansas (1601) and to the Colorado River and Gulf of California (1605).



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