Sacking San Josef de Oruña
Antonio de Berrio, conquistador of Guiana, suffered from El Dorado fever just like his nemesis Walter Ralegh. It was their shared purpose that put the two very different men on a collusion course.
After inheriting Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada’s claims to lands in the Orinoco basin, Antonio de Berrio went to South America to begin searching for Manoa in 1583. He was more systematic than Quesada had been, and after three expeditions and the navigation of several rivers that included the Meta, Berrio determined that Manoa could be found near the Caron…
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