Ortún Velázquez de Velasco ( – 4November 1584) was a Spanish conquistador. He is known as the co-founder and first governor of Pamplona in the Norte de Santander department of Colombia, which borders Venezuela. Conquistadores desde las ciudades Coro y Pamplona
American expeditions
Velázquez de Velasco took part in the expedition of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca people led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada from 1536 to 1539. He then settled in Tunja under Gonzalo Suárez Rendón. He married there, was mayor of the city in 1544,Muñoz Cárdenas, 2014, p.15 and left in 1548. From 1549 he participated in the conquest of the Chitarero people and the foundation of Pamplona under Pedro de Ursúa. List of conquistadors led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada – Banco de la RepúblicaRodríguez Freyle, 1979 (1638), p.xii
Personal life Ortún Velázquez de Velasco was born around 1500 in the town of Cuéllar, Segovia Province, Castile and León, the only son of Gutierre Velázquez de Cuéllar, lord of Villavaquerín, and María Enríquez de Acuña. He had one sister, Ana Velázquez. Velázquez de Velasco married Luisa Montalvo de Lugo in Tunja in 1545 and the couple had three children: one son and two daughters. María Velázquez de Velasco y Montalvo married conquistador Juan Maldonado Ordóñez.Rodríguez Freyle, 1979 (1638), p.126
See also
List of conquistadors in Colombia Spanish conquest of the Muisca El Dorado Spanish conquest of the Chitarero Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo Suárez Rendón, Pamplona, Norte de Santander
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