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Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest
Spanish claims to
Alaska
and the
West Coast of North America
date to the
papal bull of 1493
, and the
Treaty of Tordesillas
. In 1513, this claim was reinforced by Spanish explorer
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
, the first European to sight the
Pacific Ocean
, when he claimed all lands adjoining this ocean for the
Spanish Crown
. Spain only started to colonize the claimed territory north of present-day Mexico in the 18th century, when it settled the northern coast of
Las Californias
(California).
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