Who is Pio Pico?

Pío Pico



Pío Pico was a Mexican governor of California. He was born at the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel to José María Pico and María Eustaquia Gutiérrez with the aid of midwife Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné. He was the fourth of ten children of mixed ancestry (he had African, Italian, Native American, and Spanish blood). His paternal grandmother, María Jacinta de la Bastida, was listed in the 1790 census as mulata. His grandfather, Santiago de la Cruz Pico, described as a Mestizo in the same census, was among the soldiers accompanying Juan Bautista de Anza on the expedition that launched from Tubac, Arizona for California around 1775 with the intent to explore and colonize.^[1] After the death of his father in 1819 he settled in San Diego, California. He married María Ignacia Alvarado on February 24, 1834.

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