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Miguel Costanso was born in 1769 in Barcelona, Spain.
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Diario historico de los viages de mar, y tierra hechos al norte de la California: de orden del excellentissimo señor marques de Croix Virrey, ... señor D. Joseph de Gal... (Spanish Edition)
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The PORTOLA EXPEDITION Of 1769 - 1770. Diary of Vicente Vila.
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An historical journal of the expeditions by sea and land, to the North of California; in 1768, 1769, and 1770: ... From a Spanish MS. Translated by William Reveley, Esq. Published by A Dalrymple. 1790
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The Costansó Narrative of the Portolá Expedition: First Chronicle of the Spanish Conquest of Alta California (Hogarth series of early California)
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The Discovery of San Francisco Bay: The Portolá Expedition of 1769-1770 / El Descubrimiento de la Bahía de San Francisco: La Expedición de Portolá de ... Miguel Costansó (English and Spanish Edition)
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On July 14, 1769 the Portola Expedition started off into an unknown country. They were the first Europeans to explore by land what is now California. In human history it is quite a short time from the Portola Expedition to the present day-- 223 years, some eight to ten generations. Most of what Miguel Costano saw has been transformed beyond belief and beyond imagining. But from the discovery site on Sweeney Ridge you can see Point Reyes and the white cliffs of Drakes Bay to the north-north-west, and the Farallon Islands to the west. And when you turn around you will behold the full sweep of the "magnificent estuary" that is San Francisco Bay, stretching toward the southeast.
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Miguel Costanso
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He was the ensign (alférez) of engineers sent under Gov. Gaspar de Portol to make astronomical observations when José de Galvez, visitor general of New Spain, and his coadjutor Francisco de Croix the viceroy, decided to send, in 1769, a "Holy Expedition" to occupy Alta California.
Costansó sailed from La Paz, Baja California, on January 10, 1769, on the paquebot San Carlos, reaching the port of San Diego, Alta California, on April 29 or 30, after 110 terrible days at sea.
On July 14 he was a member of Portol 's famous party which set out by land to find Sebastian Vizcaíno's noteworthy port of Monterey, upon which a fort was to be built. On this expedition Costansó and Father Juan Crespi took observations of the latitudes, usually with fair agreement; they also participated in bestowal of place names along the coast, many of which survive in use.
Costansó returned to Mexico in July 1770.
His Diario histórico de los viages de mar y tierra hechos al norte de la California contains the complete account of Portol's first expedition promised in the preceding brief pamphlet, the Extracto de noticias del Puerto de Monterey, of which two editions were printed at Mexico. The Diario histórico was preceded by Costansó's fuller Diario del viage de tierra hecho al norte de la California, finished at San Diego, California, February 7, 1770, manuscript copies of which are in the Sutro Library and Archivo Nacional, Mexico City.
The author's name appears again in connection with this territory when in 1772 he was consulted as an expert on the feasibility of the plan proposed by Juan B. Anza to connect Sonora and Alta California by a land route; his affirmative advice contributed to the success of Anza in the founding of San Francisco in 1776. Again in 1794-95 the engineer's opinion was called for when the problem came up of defending the coast from European enemies.
He also served as consulting engineer in affairs concerning the drainage of Mexico City through the Huehuetoca Canal, in the fortification of Vera Cruz, and in the matter of the military judgment on Intendant Riaño's strategy in opposing Miguel Hidalgo's attack on Guanajuato in 1811.
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He was the author of the first book which concerned Alta California exclusively, his Diario histórico de los viages de mar y tierra hechos al norte de la California, finished at Mexico October 24, 1770, and printed there before 1771. Costansó thus made three major contributions to the literature of the Spanish conquest of California; they are full of reasonable scientific accuracy, competent personal experience, and humane observations on the country and the natives.
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The PORTOLA EXPEDITION Of 1769 - 1770. Diary of Vicente Vila.
(This book, "The Portola Expedition of 1769-1770: Diary of...)
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An historical journal of the expeditions by sea and land, to the North of California; in 1768, 1769, and 1770: ... From a Spanish MS. Translated by William Reveley, Esq. Published by A Dalrymple. 1790
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The Discovery of San Francisco Bay: The Portolá Expedition of 1769-1770 / El Descubrimiento de la Bahía de San Francisco: La Expedición de Portolá de ... Miguel Costansó (English and Spanish Edition)
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Diario historico de los viages de mar, y tierra hechos al norte de la California: de orden del excellentissimo señor marques de Croix Virrey, ... señor D. Joseph de Gal... (Spanish Edition)
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The Costansó Narrative of the Portolá Expedition: First Chronicle of the Spanish Conquest of Alta California (Hogarth series of early California)
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The PORTOLA EXPEDITION Of 1769 - 1770. Diary of Vicente Vila.
Connections
He married Manuela de Aso y Otal, a woman from a wealthy family in Mexico.
