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Balboa had first sailed to the New World in 1500, and in September 1510 established the first European settlement in the mainland Americas.
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Dec 18, 2009 · Vasco Nuñez de Balboa was a Spanish conquistador, governor and explorer who helped settle South America and the Pacific coast of Central and South America.
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Jul 5, 2022 · Vasco Núñez de Balboa's impact on the world was that, in discovering the Pacific Ocean, he restarted the search for a western sea route to Asia. He also inspired Ferdinand Magellan to sail south and around the tip of South America into the Pacific.
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Sep 19, 2024 · Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador and explorer, who was head of the first stable settlement on the South American continent (1511) and who was the first European to sight the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean (on September 25 [or 27], 1513, from ‘a peak in Darien’ on the Isthmus of Panama.
Aug 2, 2023 · Who Was Vasco Núñez de Balboa? Explorer and conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa helped establish the town of Darién on the Isthmus of Panama, becoming interim governor.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–January 15, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, colonial governor, and Conquistador. He is known principally for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to see and then reach the Pacific coastline of the New World.
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer most well-known for being the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. He was born in 1475 in Jeréz de los Caballeros, in the Castilian province of Extremadura.
