Francisco Antonio Marín del Valle

Francisco Antonio Marín del Valle (1722 – c. 1765) was Governor and Captain General of New Mexico (now a U.S. state), between 1754 and 1760.

He was the son of Francisco Marin del Valle and Manuela Saenz de Tejada and brother of Santiago Marín.

In 1754, he ordered Spanish engineer and cartographer Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco to make a new map of Southern New Mexico.

Francisco Antonio Marín del Valle married Maria Ignacia Martinez de Ugarte (who was a wealthy aristocrat), in 1754.

[2] The altarpiece of Nuestra Señora de la Luz was moved to the Cathedral of Santa Fe in 1859,[3] because the military chapel had fallen to ruin.

Map of New Mexico, 1760, drawn by Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco to Marín del Valle