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La Punta De Los Muertos

1782 establishments in Alta California1782 in Alta CaliforniaCalifornia Historical LandmarksHistory of San Diego County, California
The Spanish insult to the British flag at Nootka Sound LCCN2003665189
The Spanish insult to the British flag at Nootka Sound LCCN2003665189

La Punta de Los Muertos, also called Sailors, Dead Men's Point is a historical site in San Diego, California. La Punta de Los Muertos site is a California Historical Landmark No. 57, listed on December 6, 1932. The site is thought (site could be another place) to be the burial site of those that died in the survey party of Don Juan Pantoja y Arriaga and Don José Továr in 1782. Don Juan Pantoja y Arriaga arrived at San Diego Bay on the Spanish Empire Royal frigate La Princesa. With La Princesa was the frigate La Favorita. The ships were under the command of Don Augustín de Echeverria or Esteban José Martínez. La Princesa was under Agustín de Echeverría and Josef Tovar. Some sailors on the ships most likely died from scurvy or an intestinal disease, from lack of fresh food on the trip to San Diego. Esteban Martínez and Pantoja was also on the trip. Don Juan Pantoja was the leader of the San Diego Bay survey party, called the Pantoja voyage. The site is now a city shopping mall and Ruocco Park, near the San Diego Police Museum.A historical marker was place on Harbor Drive and Pacific Highway (California Highway 163) in San Diego, in 1954 by San Diego County Board of Supervisors and the Historical Markers Committee.

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