Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Aguado, Pedro

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AGUADO, Pedro (ah-goo-ah'-do), Spanish Franciscan monk, b. in Valdemoro, near Madrid, in the 16th century. He went to South America, where he wrote an interesting book that was published under the title of “Descubrimiento pacificación y población de la provincia de Santa Marta y Nuevo reino de Granada.”