Juan de Albarracín
| Juan de Albarracín | |
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| Born |
unknown Castile |
| Died |
unknown Castile |
| Nationality | Castilian |
| Occupation | Conquistador |
| Years active | 1536-1539 |
| Employer | Spanish Crown |
| Known for | Spanish conquest of the Muisca |
| Spouse(s) | Ana de Lugo |
| Children | Jacome, Alvaro, Alonso de Lugo Albarracín (sons) Inés, Sebastiana, Catalina de Lugo Albarracín (daughters) |
| Relatives | Pedro de Lugo (father-in-law) |
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Juan de Albarracín (?, Castile - ?, Castile) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca and Panche. He was captain of the brigs that intended to sail up the Magdalena River from the Caribbean coast in 1536 and later discovered the high quality salt that lead the Spanish conquistadors along the Camino de la Sal up the slopes of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes towards the Muisca Confederation.
De Albarracín fought battles alongside Martín Galeano and Juan de Céspedes against the Panche and ordered in Guataquí the construction of two small boats to sail the conquistadors Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Sebastián de Belalcázar and Nikolaus Federmann back to Spain via Cartagena. Juan de Albarracín married Ana de Lugo, daughter of Pedro Fernández de Lugo with whom he had arrived in the New World in January 1536. De Albarracín died in Spain in an unknown year.
Juan de Albarracín is mentioned as Albarracín in the early chronicle about the Spanish conquest, a work of uncertain authorship; Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada.
Juan de Albarracín left Spain with his father-in-law Pedro de Lugo for the New World, arriving in January 1536 in Santa Marta. Under his command, De Albarracín taught his men to fish for pearls, near Cabo de la Vela in northernmost present-day Colombia. De Albarracín joined the expedition in search of El Dorado, the journey lead by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada leaving Santa Marta in April 1536. Juan de Albarracín was one of the three captains of the brigs that De Quesada sent up the Magdalena River, the other two Gómez del Corral and Antonio Díaz de Cardoso.
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