García Jofre de Loaísa, Spanish explorer (born 1490)

Loaísa expedition

Castilian travel to Southeast Asia in the 16th century

The Loaísa expedition was an early 16th-century Spanish voyage of discovery to the Pacific Ocean, commanded by García Jofre de Loaísa and ordered by King Charles I of Spain to colonize the Spice Islands in the East Indies. The seven-ship fleet sailed from La Coruña, Spain in…