Correos committed Garrafal error on a stamp. The company has demonstrated a total lack of knowledge and professionalism in the release of a print from the series Discoverers of Oceania: that of the Burgos Toribio Alonso de Salazarwho calls Toribio Asensio de Salazar.
Correos dedicates several commemorative series of seals to Spanish discoverers, the latter, to those who have reached the unknown Oceania in the 16th century. But in publishing the latter, we made an error which is, to say the least, curious for a state-owned company of its size and its large budget. He renamed Toribio Alonso de Salazar, Garcia Jofre de Loaysathe call in this damn world
It’s very good that @Mail dedicate stamps to the Spanish captains who discovered Oceania, but if in doing so they get the name wrong, they are doing a disservice.
Let’s hope they correct that of Toribio ALONSO de Salazar, successor of Elcano in the Loaysa expedition. pic.twitter.com/NCKtLSgGSn– RutaElcano (@Ruta_Elcano) November 22, 2024
This is not the first time Correos has made a similar mistake. In 2018 he presented in León a stamp dedicated to the Castilian province in which, by mistake, the Burgos Cathedral appeared. On this occasion, the president of the state company at the time, Javier Cuestapresent at the presentation event, apologized, even if he did not realize it at first.
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Who was Salazar’s Toribio Alonso
Toribio Alonso de Salazar was one of the inhabitants of Burgos who participated in the expedition of Garcia Jofre of Loaysa. When organizing the second trip to the Isle of Spices, Loaysa and Juan Sebastian Elcano and the
The expedition began on July 24, 1525 and reached the immediate vicinity of the strait in January 1526. Alonso de Salazar was the accountant of the San Lesmes Nao, led by Francisco de Hoces. This ship sailed further south of the strait, up to 55 degrees south, unknowingly discovering Cape Horn end of January.
Loaysa died at the end of July 1526 and was replaced in command by Elcanodied four days later. It was then that they appointed the Captain General Toribio Alonso de Salazar. The new captain continued to advance across the Pacific and arrived at the island of Guam on September 4, 1526. There he found the Galician sailor Gonzalo de Vigo, who had deserted Magellan’s expedition and had managed to visit thirteen of the main islands in the region. from the islands of Latin Sails, or Thieves.
