Cook’s voyages helped guide generations of explorers and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. In 1513, Spanish ...

This 1859 volume contains three accounts of the Amazon region, all translated from the Spanish and covering the century 1539–1639: The Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro to the Land of Cinnamon; The Voyage ...

Pizarro remarked how Punta Arenas, the most southerly city in the world, has been experiencing strange weather patterns. Just that morning, in fact, he had remarked to his family how Punta Arenas ...

Sal Pizarro is a Bay Area News Group columnist who has written the Around Town column for The Mercury News since 2005. His column covers the people and events surrounding the cultural scene in ...

San Francisco seems to have escaped the so-called 'doom loop' it got trapped in after the pandemic; its real estate housing market has finally started rebounding; crime rates are down; and jobs in ...

From world-class Korean barbecue to Mission-style burritos to quintessential California cuisine, here are our current favorites. RintaroCredit...Aya Brackett Supported by By Eleanore Park Brian ...

San Francisco is temperate, generally cool and foggy in the morning and sunny in the afternoon with a temperature consistently between 55 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit all year round. Due to the city ...

Marcos Pizarro is Professor and Chair of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Jose State University and was recently appointed Associate Dean of the College of Education. A former school teacher, ...

At UC San Francisco, we are driven by the idea that when the best research, the best teaching and the best patient care converge, we can deliver breakthroughs that help heal the world. Excellence is ...

Hotel Zephyr, open since 2015, was voted by T+L readers as the No. 1 hotel in San Francisco in our 2024 World's Best Awards. Located in the midst of San Francisco's famed Fisherman's Wharf ...

Part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Presidio Tunnel Tops is the nation’s newest national park space and reconnects the city to the bay. The 14-acre park, which was designed by ...