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History of Central America, Volume 2, 1530-1800, Volume 7

Note XXII‑4 — Chapter XXII · AFFAIRS IN PANAMÁ. 1551-1600.

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Ursua was a native of a town of the same name in Navarre. He went to New Granada with his uncle, the licenciado, Michael Diaz de Armendariz. Piedrahita, Hist. Gen., 530. Of his career subsequent to this war we learn that he went to Lima whence, after various services, he was sent in 1561 to explore some rich Brazilian forests in the neighborhood of the rio Marañon, where he met his death at the hands of his own countrymen.

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