Diego de Holguín
File:Retrato Rojo de Carlos V.jpg{{Short description|Spanish conquistador}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Diego de Holguín
|
| caption =
| office = 1st Lieutenant Governor of San Salvador
| term_start = 1 April 1525
| term_end = 1 April 1528
| predecessor = Position established
| successor = Diego de Alvarado
| birth_date = 1486
| birth_place = Spain
| death_date = {{death year and age|1556|1486}}
| death_place =
| death_cause =
| nationality = Spanish
| occupation = Conquistador
| allegiance = {{flag|Spain|1506}}
| battles = Spanish colonization of the Americas
}}
Diego de Holguín (1486 – 1556) was a Spanish conquistador and the first mayor of San Salvador, serving from 1525 to 1528. He participated in the conquest of many nations in the Caribbean islands, Central America and Mexico, where he became famous for his courage.
Biography
Diego de Holguín was born around 1486 in a Spanish town called Tona or Sona.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} He arrived in the Americas very young and settled in the Spanish colony in present day Dominican Republic in 1506.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} There, he participated in the foundation of the cities of Aragua, Puerto Real, and Ciudad de la Vega. {{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
Holguín participated in the conquest of Guatemala and El Salvador under the command of Pedro de Alvarado. He was alderman of the municipality of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala. Along with Gonzalo de Alvarado, was one of the founders of the first settlement of San Salvador, next to a fortress Cuzcatlecos, and became its first mayor in April 1525, serving until April 1528.{{sfn|García Granados|1924|p=10}}{{sfn|Arce|Antonio|2001|p=118}} The city he founded, now known as Ciudad Vieja, was later refounded in the location where San Salvador currently is located.{{cite web|url=http://sansalvador.gob.sv/DatosDelMunicipio|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905065253/http://sansalvador.gob.sv/DatosDelMunicipio|archive-date=5 September 2018|access-date=12 January 2022|website=San Salvador.gob|title=Datos del Municipio|trans-title=Dates of the Municipality}}
Óscar Romero freeway was originally to be called Diego de Holguín.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
References
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- {{cite book|last1=Arce|first1=Escalante|last2=Antonio|first2=Pedro|date=2001|chapter=Los Barrios de los Mexicanos en El Salvador|trans-chapter=The Mexican Neighborhoods in El Salvador|edition=1|title=Los Tlaxcaltecas en Centro América|trans-title=The Tlaxcaltecas in Central America|url=https://archive.org/details/lostlaxcaltecase11esca/page/118/mode/2up|language=es|location=San Salvador|publisher=Dirección de Publicaciones e Impresos and the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y el Arte|pages=115–137|oclc=1036658730}}
- {{cite book|last1=García Granados|first1=Jorge|date=1924|title=Libro Viejo de la Fundación de Guatemala y Papeles Relativos a D. Pedro de Alvarado|trans-title=Old Book of the Foundation of Guatemala and Relative Papers to D. Pedro de Alvarado|url=https://archive.org/details/libroviejodelafu12guat/page/10/mode/2up|language=es|volume=12|publisher=Tipografía Nacional|location=Guatemala City, Guatemala|series=Biblioteca Goathemala de la Soc de Geografía y Historia; v. XII|publication-date=July 1934|pages=1–14|access-date=12 January 2022}}
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Category:Spanish conquistadors