Urdaneta, Andrés de, 1498-1568

"Andrés de Urdaneta y Cerain (Ordicia, posiblemente en 1508-Ciudad de México, 3 de junio de 1568) fue un militar, cosmógrafo, marino, explorador y religioso agustino español. Participó en las peligrosas expediciones de García Jofre de Loaísa y Miguel López de Legazpi, y alcanzó fama universal por descubrir y documentar la ruta a través del océano Pacífico desde Filipinas hasta Acapulco, conocida como Ruta de Urdaneta o tornaviaje."

"Friar Andrés de Urdaneta, O.S.A., (November 30, 1498 - June 3, 1568) was a Spanish Basque circumnavigator, explorer and Augustinian friar. As a navigator he achieved in 1536 the "second" world circumnavigation (after the first one led by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano and their crew in 1522). Urdaneta discovered and plotted a path across the Pacific from the Philippines to Acapulco in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (present day Mexico) used by the Manila galleons, which came to be known as "Urdaneta's route." He was considered as "protector of the Indians" for his treatment of the Filipino natives; also Cebu and the Philippines' first prelate."