Sebastian de benalcazar biography of mahatma
This species is native to Ecuador and "named after Sebastian de Benalcazar, lieutenant of Francisco Pizarro, the conquistador of South America.".!
Sebastian Moyano y Cabrera or Sebastián de Belalcazar or Benalcazar, is known as the founder of important early colonial cities.
Sebastián de Belalcázar
Spanish conquistador
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Moyano and the second or maternal family name is Cabrera.
Sebastián Moyano y Cabrera, best known as Sebastián de Belalcázar (Spanish pronunciation:[seβasˈtjandeβelalˈkaθaɾ]; c.
1490 – April 28, 1551) was a Spanish conquistador.[1] Belalcázar, also written as Benalcázar, is known as the founder of important early colonial cities in the northwestern part of South America; Quito in 1534 and Cali, Pasto and Popayán in 1537.
Belalcázar led expeditions in present-day Ecuador and Colombia and died of natural causes after being sentenced to death in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia in 1551.
Early life
He was born as Sebastián Moyano in the province of Córdoba, Spain, in either 1479 or 1480.
He took the name Belalcázar as that was the name of the castle-town near to his birthplace in Córdoba.[2]: 157 According to various