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Américo Paredes’s ancestors arrived in Tampico in 1580 with Carvajal. Carvajal returned to New Spain with a new set of colonists.

In 1579, Luis de Carvajal, a Portuguese of Sephardic background and former corregidor of Tampico from 1575 to 1577, left his home for Spain to receive a capitulación from Philip II enabling him to return to New Spain with friends and relatives to form a new gobierno, el Nuevo Reino de León, of which he was to be governor and captain general.

The most lasting consequences of the expedition were its opening of vast territories to settlement, the introduction of exploitative activities like fur-trapping, and the conversion of large tracts of forest and prairie to farmland. The principal zoological results of this exploration were the discovery of more than 100 new types of animals, the presentation of these finds to the world of Western science, and the stimulation of subsequent exploratory trips into the Louisiana Territory. Lewis and Clark devoted much of their energy along the way to the observation, description, and collection of botanical and zoological specimens. coast, and retraced most of its original route back to St. During its two years, the expedition went up the Missouri River to its sources, crossed the Rockies, wintered on the Oregon. The journey began at Wood River, Illinois, on May 14, 1804, and concluded with the return of the party to St. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was the culmination of a series of efforts by Thomas Jefferson to explore the American West.