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       Pantoja 
      Plaza, (bounded by Columbia, India, F and G streets), is the city's oldest 
      park. Created in 1850 and named after the Spanish explorer, 
      Don Juan Pantoja y Arriaga, 
      who first surveyed & charted San Diego Bay in 1782, it is a rare pocket of 
      quiet greenery amid all the bustle of downtown redevelopment. 
      
       
      Don Juan Pantoja y Arriaga 
      was pilot, and Don José Továr was mate of the royal frigates La Princesa 
      and La Favorita under command of Don Augustín de Echeverria. 
		
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