Pedro Fernández de Lugo (1475 Seville –1536 Santa Marta) was the second adelantado of the Canary Islands and governor of Tenerife and La Palma, a title confirmed again by Charles I of Spain, in Barcelona, on 17 August 1519.
[1] Born in Seville, Pedro arrived at Gran Canaria as a young child and later accompanied his father to expeditions to Barbary.
Pedro commanded the tower of Santa Cruz de la Mar Pequeña and participated in expeditions against the Berbers alongside the Portuguese.
He was appointed Governor of Santa Marta in 1535, backed financially by Cristóbal Francesquini and Juan Alberto Gerardini, a Florentine residing in Tenerife from 1510.
Fernández de Lugo died in 1536, before receiving news of the newly discovered Muisca.