Description
Portillo Channel is located connecting Gulf of Esquibel and Ursua Channel, between Lulu and San Fernando Is., Alex. Arch.
History
Named Canal de Portillo by Francisco Antonio Maurelle about May 22, 1779, when he sailed through it, probably after Jose de Portillo who a little later became a minister of the Council of the Indies in Spain (Wagner, 1937, p. 403).