Diego Osorio Villegas
Venezuelan politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Osorio and the second or maternal family name is Villegas.
Diego de Osorio y Villegas (1540 in Villasandino[1] – 1601 in Santo Domingo[2]) was a sixteenth-century governor of Venezuela Province (1589–1597), the Venezuela Province being a part of the Spanish Empire. He was governor at the time of the Preston Somers Expedition, during which an English force found Caracas by way of a secret route through the mountains.
He was then Governor of Santo Domingo until he died in 1601. Previously, he spent 15 years fighting in the Dutch Revolt.[1][3]