Pasó por aqui, el adelantado Don Juan de Oñate del descubrimiento de la mar del sur a 16 de Abril de 1605.
It was on this date in 1605 that European vandals first started tagging the rock face at what is now El Morro National Monument.
In English: “Passed by here, the adelantado Don Juan de Oñate from the discovery of the sea of the south the 16th of April of 1605.”
1605, before Jamestown and before the Pilgrims had even migrated to Holland on their way to Massachusetts.
