Governor of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala. Beatriz de la Cueva de Alvarado, born Beatriz de Valencia de la Cueva y Benavides or Beatriz de la Cueva y Benavides, nicknamed "La Sinventura" ("The Unfortunate") was a Spanish noblewoman from Úbeda in Andalucia who became the governor of the Spanish colony of Guatemala for a few days in September 1541, before being killed by an earthquake shortly after taking office. Unique as the only woman to hold such a position in a major division of Spanish Latin America in colonial times, she is credited with having introduced the Spanish style of house construction and Spanish customs into Guatemala.
Governor of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala. Beatriz de la Cueva de Alvarado, born Beatriz de Valencia de la Cueva y Benavides or Beatriz de la Cueva y Benavides, nicknamed "La Sinventura" ("The Unfortunate") was a Spanish noblewoman from Úbeda in Andalucia who became the governor of the Spanish colony of Guatemala for a few days in September 1541, before being killed by an earthquake shortly after taking office. Unique as the only woman to hold such a position in a major division of Spanish Latin America in colonial times, she is credited with having introduced the Spanish style of house construction and Spanish customs into Guatemala.
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