 Moraga is also known as the founder of "El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe", the present day city of San Jose, California.On 29 November 1777, Moraga founded San José on orders from Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa, the Spanish Viceroy of New Spain.It was the first Spanish colonial pueblo in the northern region of Las Californias Province, which became its own Alta California Province in 1804.