Pedro de los Ríos y Gutiérrez de Aguayo (died 1547) was a Spanish colonial administrator who succeeded Pedrarias Dávila as governor of Castilla del Oro (1526–1529) and of

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(1526–1527). Born in

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, his parents were Diego Gutiérrez de los Ríos y González de Hoces and Elvira Gutiérrez de Aguayo y López de Montemayor. Pedro de los Ríos was named governor of Castilla del Oro in May 1526 and took charge of the post in July of the same year. He later moved to Nicaragua and earned the trust of its administrators who also bestowed him the governorship. However, the governor of

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Diego López de Salcedo y Rodríguez soon arrived in

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, and obliged Ríos to abandon the post and return to Castilla del Oro. After several years of mishandling the governorship of Castilla del Oro, he was removed from the post and succeeded by

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in August 1529. His duties done in Central America, he decided to join

Francisco Pizarro Francisco Pizarro González, Marquess of the Atabillos (; ; – 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of Peru. Born in Trujillo, Spain to a poor family, Pizarro chose ...

in the newly discovered territory of

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. Once there, he arrived in the Incan capital of

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and was registered among its first Spanish settlers. Ríos sided with Pizarro's forces against initial unsuccessful attempts by the

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to regain Peru. He participated in the

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(1542) and several years later died in the Battle of Huarina, near

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on October 27, 1547.

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