It’s anazing that the Baja peninsula is on there. That means that to some extent the west coast of North America was explored much further north than I was aware of. Obviously Panama and south to Peru and Equador were well explored but that North America’s west coast was detailed somewhat is extraordinary.
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The Spanish conquered the Mexican mainland by the early 1500s and Cortez actually reached La Paz by 1535. He was looking for a fabled gold city, but only discovered black pearls. Bummer...
A later expedition was led by Juan Cabrillo in 1542, but that would be the last European venture into the area until the end of the 1500s.