Don Pedro de Anda Altamirano (c. 1551 – 27 January 1619) was a Spanish conquistador, judge, and colonizer of New Spain.
Pedro de Anda Altamirano was born c. 1551, in Spain, to a family of minor Basque nobility.
He served as a captain in the colonial army of New Spain, having notably helped lead the Spanish conquest of the Chichimeca people in the Bajío region of Mexico.
[2] After the conquest of the Chichimecas, de Anda helped lead the colonization of the Jalisco Highlands in the Western Bajío region.
[4][5] In 1565, Captain de Anda was given a hacienda and a land grant by the Royal Audiencia of the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia outside of Lagos de Moreno named Hacienda el Xaral, which included the famous Mesa Redonda plateau.