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Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (22 May 1743 – 26 March 1794) was a Spanish Criollo naval officer operating in the Americas. Assigned to the Pacific coast Spanish Naval Department base at San Blas, in Viceroyalty of New Spain (present day Mexico), he explored the Northwest Coast of North America as far north as present day Alaska.
Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (b. 22 August 1737; d. 26 March 1794), Spanish naval officer, explorer of the Pacific Northwest. Born in Lima, Peru, Bodega became a Spanish naval officer and was posted to the department of San Blas in 1774.
Feb 6, 2006 · Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, naval officer, explorer, administrator (bap at Lima, Peru 3 June 1743; d at Mexico City 26 Mar 1794). In 1775 he made a difficult voyage of exploration from San Blas, Mexico, to 58° 30´ N and Bucareli Sound, Alaska.
Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra ( Lima, bautizado el 3 de junio de 1744 – México, 26 de marzo de 1794) fue un oficial hispano-peruano de la Armada española. Navegó desde el puerto de San Blas, en el actual estado de Nayarit, México, entre 1774 y 1788 y exploró toda la costa noroeste de América por el Océano Pacífico hasta Alaska . Carrera.
BODEGA Y QUADRA (Cuadra), JUAN FRANCISCO DE LA, naval officer, explorer, and diplomat; baptized 3 June 1743 in Lima, Peru, son of Tomás de la Bodega y de las Llanas, a Spanish-born deputy of the Spanish consulate in Cuzco, and Francisca de Mollinedo y Losada, descendant of a prominent Peruvian family; d. 26 March 1794 in Mexico City.
To adapt it for the churning waves, unforgiving winds, rocky shoals, and strong currents of the northern Pacific sea, it was thoroughly refitted and careened in San Blas prior to the expedition under the watchful eyes of its commanders, Juan de Ayala and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (1743-1794).
Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest. A portrait of Spanish captain Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, c. 1785. Bodega made several expeditions to the Pacific Northwest to chart the region and settle boundary disputes with the British.
