Statistics and meaning of name Vantara Usage: 20% firstname, 80% surname. Vantara first name was found 5 times in 3 different countries. Surname Vantara is used at least 20 times in at least 5 countries. Name written with Chinese letters: ç¿é¶å³ (pinyin: wÄng tÃ¡o lÃ¡o)
1598 Spanish Colonization of New Mexico Juan de OÃ±ate leads the Spanish colonization of the province of New Mexico. He establishes his first capital in San Juan de los Caballeros at the confluence of the Rio Grande and Chama River. Read More.
Beginning in the early 1800s, Spanish military troops were stationed in the abandoned chapel of the former mission. Because it stood in a grove of cottonwood trees, the soldiers called their new fort âEl Alamoâ after the Spanish word for cottonwood and in honor of Alamo de Parras, their hometown in Mexico.