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What Spanish Ports used during XVI?
There are three ports in Spain that were there during XVI period:
Puerto San Sebastian:
http://oi60.tinypic.com/142fsp2.jpg
Puerto Santander:
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2ym9bm1.jpg
Puerto Sevilla:
http://oi58.tinypic.com/s3zkte.jpg
Included are the three pictures. Most of the spanish explorers that arrived to Zacatecas were from the Basque region from "Gipuzkoa" such as Francisco Ibarra, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gipuzkoa
The ports of San Sebastian and Santander are located in the northern side of Spain near the Basque region. So I wonder if that is where they embarked rather than Sevilla which is at the very south side of Spain.