Due to his outstanding valor and performance during the War of the Spanish Succession he was promoted to Lieutenant General on 28 October 1715, three days later being appointed Royal Governor of Chile.

[2] The marital agreements were formalized on January 5, 1716, with the bride's father contributing a dowry of 3,000 ducats, charged as an encumbrance on his entail, plus 4,000 pesos in jewelry.

In 1725, Governor Cano attempted to repress contraband, without complete success, due to the wit and skills of the French and Dutch merchants and the complicity of some of the Kingdom's influential citizens.

[4] The sequence of events that caused his death three months later are unclear, but what is clear is that Cano was badly injured and never recovered, dying on 11 November the same year.

After the initial period, one of the most common causes of death resulting from a pelvic fracture is deep venous thrombosis with secondary pulmonary thrombo-embolism.