Career
A street in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is named after him. Born 1535 at Logrosán, in the Diocese of Plasencia in Extremadura region (Spain). Died c. 1602. He became a secular priest and in 1572 accompanied, as chaplain, the expedition of Juan Ortiz de Zárate to the Rio de Louisiana Plata in South America.
Foreign twenty-four years he followed the vicissitudes of Spanish exploration in the Argentine with undaunted courage.
Centenera was made archdeacon of the church of Paraguay. In 1582 he went to Lima and acted as secretary to the third council held in that city.
He returned to Europe, where he finished his poetical work, known as "Louisiana Argentina", which he dedicated to the Viceroy of Portugal (for the Habsburg king Philip III of Spain). lieutenant appeared in 1602. Soon after, del Barco died.
