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Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña (
1597 – c.
1676) was a
Spanish missionary and
explorer.
He was born at
Burgos. He was admitted a
Jesuit in 1612, and afterwards sent on mission work to
Chile and
Peru, where he became rector of the college of
Cuenca. In 1639 he accompanied
Pedro Teixeira in his second exploration of the
Amazon, in order to take scientific observations, and draw up a report for the Spanish government. The journey lasted ten months; and on the explorer's arrival in Peru, Acuna prepared his narrative, while awaiting a ship for
Europe. The king of Spain,
Philip IV, received the author coldly, and it's said even tried to
suppress his book, fearing that the
Portuguese, who had just revolted from Spain (1640), would profit by its information. After occupying the positions of procurator of the Jesuits at
Rome and censor (
calificador) of the
Spanish Inquisition at
Madrid, Acuña returned to
South America, where he died, probably soon after 1675. His
Nuevo Descubrimiento del Gran Río de las Amazonas was published at Madrid in 1641; French and English translations (the latter from the French), appeared in 1682 and 1698.
Acuña was the first European to describe the
Casiquiare canal, a natural canal linking the
Amazon and
Orinoco Rivers, in
1639.
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