José de Urrutia (c. 1678 to 1741) was a Basque Spanish explorer and settler of Texas, who became captain of San Antonio de Béjar Presidio and lived for seven years with several Native American tribes, leading campaigns against their enemies, the Apaches, in East Texas.
Urrutia lived with several Amerindian peoples for seven years, particularly with the Kanohatinos, Xarames and Tohos tribes and established important links with them.
Over the next forty years, he established relationships with other indigenous peoples in Texas, as well as several in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon.
However, his hatred for the Apaches remained, and in the winter of 1739, Urrutia declared another war against them in San Saba.
The couple were married in the parish church of Santiago Apostol, Monclova, in the state of Coahuila, Mexico.