Francisco de Sande

Doctor Francisco de Sande
3rd Governor General of the Philippines
In office August 25, 1575 – April 1580
Monarch	Philip II of Spain
Preceded by	Guido de Lavezaris
Succeeded by	Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñaloza
Personal details
Born	1540 Cáceres, Spain
Died	12 September 1602 (aged 61–62) New Spain

Francisco de Sande Picón (1540–1602) was the third Spanish governor and captain-general of the Philippines from August 25, 1575 to April 1580. He established the Royal City of Nueva Cáceres, now known as Naga City.

A native of Cáceres and a relative of Álvaro de Sande, he served as attorney, criminal judge, and auditor in Mexico. He succeeded Guido de Lavezaris, a member of the 1543 Ruy López de Villalobos Expedition from Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, México, on August 25, 1575.

In 1575, King Philip II of Spain appointed him as the governor-general of the Philippines.

One of his first acts of political advocacy was to disestablish vast encomiendas of wealthy Spaniards in the Philippines. In 1576, he issued a decree forbidding all officials appointed by the Crown to own encomiendas that were initially for Indios. He also established the city of Nueva Cáceres, province of Camarines Sur, Bicol region, Island of Luzon, the largest of the some 7,107 islands (under Spanish Administration till 1898, for some 350–370 years), Philippine Islands. A few years after, Spanish and Dominican prelate Domingo de Salazar requested to create monasteries for the Dominicans; this was granted by Sande through King Philip II's royal decree.

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