Alonso Carrió de la Vandera

Alonso Carrió de la Vandera was born in Gijón, in Asturias, around 1715, the son of Justo Carrió and Teresa Carreño de Argüelles. Having left in 1736 for New Spain, he was a merchant there for about ten years, then went on to Peru and in 1750 married in Lima Petronila Matute de Vargas y Melgarejo. Corregidor of Chilques y Masques, near Cuzco, from 1752 to 1757, in 1767 he escorted the expelled Jesuits as far as Europe. Charged in 1771 with reorganising the mail between Buenos Aires and Lima, he fell out with the administrator José Antonio de Pando and had to withdraw in 1778. He died in Lima in 1783.

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• NarrativeEl Lazarillo: A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers between Buenos Aires and LimaEl lazarillo de ciegos caminantesAlonso Carrió de la Vandera · 1775LiteraturePublic domain