Pedro de la Roca de Borja
Pedro de la Roca de Borja or Pedro de la Roca y Borja{{cite book |last1= HenríquezUreña |first1=Max |last2=Vega |first2=Matías |last3=Morillo |first3=Manuel María |title=El libro de Santiago de Cuba: Resumen Histórico-Descriptivo Compuesto Bajo la Dirección de Max Henríquez Ureña |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fdfVAAAAMAAJ&q=Borja |location=Barcelona |via=Indiana University |volume=1 |page=71 |publisher=Ediciones Archipiélago |year=1931 |access-date=21 June 2016}} was a Spanish noble and the colonial governor of Santiago de Cuba from 1637 to 1640{{cite book |last=Wright |first=Irene Aloha |date=1918 |title=Santiago de Cuba and Its District (1607-1640): Villaverde. |url=https://archive.org/details/santiagodecubait00wrig |quote=Borja. |location= |publisher=Estab. tip. de F. Peña Cruz |via=New York Public Library |access-date=21 June 2016}} or 1643. He was a member of the prestigious House of Borja family.{{Citation needed|date=August 2013}}
In 1637, Pedro de la Roca de Borja took over the Spanish governorship of Santiago de Cuba from Juan de Amezqueta Quijano. He was succeeded as the city's governor by Bartolomé de Osuna in December 1643.{{cite book |last=Macias Domínguez |first=Isabelo |title=Cuba en la primera mitad del siglo XVII |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bLzEnkLnEZMC&q=Borja |location= |page=239 |publisher=Editorial CSIC |year=1978 |isbn=840004391X |access-date=21 June 2016}}
Legacy
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The Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca overlooking the entry to the Bay of Santiago and serving as a defense against raiding pirates and colonial competitors was named in his honor.
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Category:17th-century Spanish people
Category:Spanish colonial governors and administrators
Category:Spanish colonial period of Cuba
Category:Spanish untitled nobility
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