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…began with the expedition of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, a Spanish adventurer from Cuba, who discovered the east coast of the Yucatán in February 1517 while on a slave-hunting expedition. In 1518 Juan de Grijalva followed the same route. In 1519 a third expedition, under the conquistador Hernán Cortés, clashed… Read More

Hernández de Córdoba, Francisco. España, c. 1475 – Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), 1526. Conquistador y descubridor. Nacido alrededor de 1475, se embarcó hacia Cuba en 1511. Amigo de Bartolomé de Las Casas, quien lo define como valiente y buen soldado.

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba ( Córdoba, España, c. 1467- Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, 1517) fue un conquistador español, que ha pasado a la historia por la accidentada expedición que dirigió entre febrero y mayo de 1517, durante la cual se registró para el Imperio español el denominado "descubrimiento de la Península de Yucatán ".

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (died 1517) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.

In 1517, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba set sail from Cuba with a small fleet. The expedition sailed west from Cuba for three weeks before sighting the northeastern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula. The ships could not put in close to the shore due to the coastal shallows.

The March 25, 1517 battle of Champotón actually pre-dated the arrival of conquistador Hernán Cortés two years later. The 1517 expedition led by Francisco Hernandez de Córdoba sailed around the Yucatán peninsula and landed at Champotón, on Mexico’s Gulf coast, looking for fresh water.

There were two Spanish conquistadors at the start of the 16th century named Francisco Hernández de Córdoba. The one described here is the generally credited as the first European to discover the peninsula of Yucatán.

Francisco Hernández (Fernández) de Córdoba ( d. 1518), Spanish navigator and conquistador from the province of Córdoba. (He is not to be confused with Francisco Fernández de Córdoba [ d. 1526], the conqueror of Nicaragua.)