 The "capitulación", or agreement, granting him the title of "adelantado", was signed in Medina del Campo on August 5, 1532, by queen Joanna of Castile (also known as Joanna the Mad).Heredia was granted an area covering virtually all of what is now Colombia and more than half of present-day Ecuador, stretching inland to the equator.Heredia moved to Sevilla, where he procured a galleon, a caravel and a patache and embarked from Cádiz with 150 men and 22 horses in November, 1532.