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Juan Díaz (conquistador)
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Juan Díaz (1480–1549), born in Seville, Spain, was a 16th-century conquistador and the chaplain of the 1518 Grijalva expedition, the Itinerario (itinerary route) of which he wrote.
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He was one of the first Spaniards who explored the named Isla de Sacrificios near Veracruz in Mexico, where the expedition found evidence of human sacrifice.
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- Itinerario de la armada del rey católico a la isla de Yucatán..., text of Díaz's account, reproduced at Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes from edn published by Joaquín García Icazbalceta (in Spanish and Italian)
- The Grijalva Expedition (1518)
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