Mural Info
Artist: Anton Refregier
Location: Mission and Spear, South of Market
Current state: Available
Photo by: SF Mural Arts
Taken on: 4-Feb-2012
Views: 3660
Panel #4. Baja California was discovered in 1533 by Fortun Jimenez of the Cortes expedition. By 1540, Ulloa, another member of that expedition, had explored the Sea of Cortes. Also in that year, Hernando de Alarcon sailed up the Colorado River and in 1541 de Bolanos explored both sides of the Baja peninsula. The first European to explore Alta California, the land above the Baja peninsula, was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo who sailed to the Santa Barbara Islands in 1543. (text from a plaque on the wall)
