On Alférez José Velásquez's reconnaissance of the San Diego→Río Colorado road

On Alférez José Velásquez's reconnaissance of the San Diego→Río Colorado road: a league-by-league travel diary (Salsipuedes, San Sebastián, Cieneguilla — the Anza-trail desert route; 'varias rancherías de gentiles muy mansos y afables, agua muy escasa, pasto en abundancia') AND ⭐⭐ a signed hand-drawn MAP ('Plan') on n411 (Savage p.408) showing Mission San Diego, Río San Diego, San Luis, the sierra crest, the Camino de Sonora, named rancherías & arroyos, and marked *aguajes* (water sources), signed Velásquez → MAP COLLECTION item (early 1783 MS route-map of the SD backcountry) + exploration + post-Yuma Colorado frontier ⚠ diary leaves n408–409 faded at scale-4

Date	1783-06-22 (exact)
From	Zúñiga
To	Fages (encloses Velásquez's diary + map)
Place	San Diego
Series	Provincial State Papers
Tomo	IV
Original tomo page	p.IV 70–74 (pp 178–180)
Savage copy page	404–408
Scan leaf	n407–n411
Document type	abstract+map
Source	Savage abstract

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How to cite this document

Zúñiga to Fages (encloses Velásquez's diary + map), San Diego, 1783-06-22, Provincial State Papers, IV, p.IV 70–74 (pp 178–180), Archives of California, C-A 2, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca2/ca2-d265.html

The originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.

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