Pedro Porter y Casanate (April 30, 1611 – February 27, 1662) was a Spanish Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator who served as the Royal Governor...

this reinforcement was the new governor Pedro Porter Casanate who assumed office on January 1, 1656. Porter managed to have the Spanish from Santiago...

eventually appointed maestre de campo in 1656 by Governor of Chile Pedro Porter Casanate and had an important role in the Spanish victory in Conuco and the...

campaigns of conquest of Pedro de Valdivia. During the early phase of the Conquest of Chile, the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia conducted a nine-year...

was destroyed and was then restored in 1657 by order of governor Pedro Porter Casanate. The Mapudungun word means water of torcaza from сопu, the bird...

the neighboring natives, and was rebuilt under the government of Pedro Porter Casanate. It was not settled until the time of the governor Manuel de Amat...

governor Alonso de Ribera. After the Mapuche Insurrection of 1655, Pedro Porter Casanate built a new fortress of San Miguel Arcángel de Colcura on the same...

the site of a mill on the Pingueral River. On October 24, 1657, Pedro Porter Casanate built a fort San Rafael de Coelemu to protect the Royal roads and...

Fort Tolpán was built in 1657, by order of governor Pedro Porter Casanate by captain Alonso de Cordova y Figueroa on the Tolpán or Trolpán River. The...

at Valdivia, Santa Juana in 1648, and at Boroa in 1649. In 1657 Pedro Porter Casanate restored the city of San Bartolomé de Chillán following its destruction...