The 1605  "graffiti" on Inscription Rock, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_O%C3%B1ate" class="extiw" title="w:Juan de Oñate">Juan de Oñate</a>, the colonial governor of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Colonial_New_Mexico" title="Category:Colonial New Mexico">Santa Fe de Nuevo México province</a> in the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
<dl><dd><dl><dd><ul><li>It is the oldest inscription at <b><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:El_Morro_National_Monument" title="Category:El Morro National Monument">El Morro National Monument</a></b>, New Mexico.</li>
<li>The inscription reads: <i>"Paso por aq[u]i el adelantado don ju/an oñate del descubrimiento de la <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">mar del sur</a> a 16 de Abril del 1605."</i></li>
<li>Showing 'historic' vandalism to the inscription, at left there is <i>"Casados/1727"</i> and <i>"J[ose?]parelo"</i>. On right, <i>"P. Joseph de la Candelaria."</i></li></ul></dd></dl></dd></dl>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:George_A._Grant" class="extiw" title="w:en:George A. Grant"><span title="American photographer">George A. Grant</span></a>
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1934
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