Gonzalo Guerrero
Gonzalo Guerrero (also known as
Gonzalo Marinero,
Gonzalo de Aroca and
Gonzalo de Aroza) was a sailor from
Palos, Spain who was shipwrecked along the
Yucatán Peninsula and was taken as a slave by the local
Maya. Earning his freedom, Guerrero became a respected warrior under a Maya lord and raised three of the first
mestizo children in Mexico and one of the first mestizo children in the
Americas, alongside the children of
Caramuru and
João Ramalho in Brazil. Little is known of his early life.
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