Misplaced Pages

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Juan Díaz" conquistador – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

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.

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.

See also

• Human sacrifice in Aztec culture

External links

• 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)

This article about an explorer is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1480 births
• 1549 deaths
• Spanish conquistadors
• History of the Aztecs
• 16th-century Spanish clergy
• 16th-century Mesoamericanists
• Historians of Mesoamerica
• 16th-century Spanish military personnel
• Explorer stubs