Francisco Bahamonde De Lugo

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Francisco Bahamonde De Lugo was a next of kin of Pedro Fernández de Lugo, son of Javier Alonso Luis Fernández de Lugo^[1], a Spanish military man, conquistador, city founder, and administrator. Francisco Bahamonde De Lugo was Governor of Puerto Rico between 1564 and 1568. The neighbors of San German, located then in Guayanilla, asked him for permission to change the villa to their present location due to the attacks of French privateers (1565) and Caribbean Indians (1568).^[2].

In 1568, the governor Francisco Bahamonde de Lugo saw the necessity to ask for the services of a Spanish doctor. The doctor chosen was Hernando de Cataño, who when accepting the position, received like payments in lots and several cavalries of earth in inlands located in front of the islet of San Juan. Thus the place was named after its owner.^[3]