Pedro Fages, another Catalan, led an exploration of the area including Berkeley. Spanish soldiers led by the Catalan Gaspar de Portolá, Governor of the Californias, first explored the Bay Area. At the mouth of Strawberry Creek, Indigenous people built the first of some 425 shellmounds that eventually surrounded the Bay. The Ohlone benefited from abundant natural resources, which they husbanded through processes such as controlled burning. The area from present-day Richmond to Oakland was known as Huchiun. Prior to Spanish colonization, the entire East Bay was the home of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people.
Ohlone in a tule boat by Louis Choris, 1816 Before Colonization
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