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- Spain during this period was sending many expeditions to the New World in search of land, riches, and opportunities to colonize the natives. In 1500, Balboa joined Don Rodrigo de Bastidas on a journey to explore the northern coast of modern day South America.
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He was accompanied on this voyage by Juan de la Cosa and Vasco Núñez de Balboa. At the South American coast he sailed westward from Cabo de la Vela , Colombia , in an attempt to explore the coastline of the Caribbean basin .
Rodrigo de Bastidas. 1460-1526. Spanish explorer of what is now Colombia. Working variously with Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) and Juan de la Cosa (1460?-1510), Bastidas travelled along the South American coast from Trinidad to the isthmus of Panama during the years 1500-1502.
A poor, illiterate hidalgo, he sailed for the New World in 1501 with the expedition of Rodrigo de Bastidas, exploring the northern coast of modern Colombia. Source for information on Balboa, Vasco Núñez de (c. 1475–1519): Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture dictionary.
- Early Life
- Darién
- Crossing Panama to The Pacific
- Arrest & Execution
Vasco Núñez de Balboa was born in Extramadura in Spain in the small village of Jerez de los Caballeros in the province of Badajoz. His family belonged to the minor nobility. In 1500-1, Balboa joined the expedition of Rodrigo de Bastidas (1460-1526), which hoped to find pearls along the northern coast of South America (present-day Colombia), then a ...
Fleeing those he owed money, in 1510 Balboa stowed away on a ship led by Martin Fernández de Enciso which was headed for the mainland to give vital aid to the fledgling Spanish colony of Urabá on the Colombian coast. Enciso enlisted the useful Balboa amongst his men, but he was an administrator not a true conquistador like Balboa – who the historia...
Balboa, realising he now had to make good on his exaggerated descriptions of the wealth of the region, organised an expedition to explore more of Panama and find out if there really was another coast not too far away on 1 September 1513. One expedition member was Francisco Pizarro (c. 1478-1541), who went on to conquer the Incas from 1532. Pizarrow...
While Balboa had been out exploring, a new governor of Castilla del Oro and its now chief city Darién had been appointed. This was Pedro Arias de Ávila (aka Pedrarias Dávila, b. 1442). Pedrarias was already infamous as a cruel colonial administrator, as indicated by his nickname furor Domini, or 'Wrath of God, but even worse for Balboa, he was a ma...
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Rodrigo de Bastidas (rôŧħrē´gō dā bästē´ŧħäs), c.1460–1526, Spanish conquistador in Colombia. In 1501, accompanied by Balboa and Juan de la Cosa, he discovered the mouths of the Magdalena River.
In 1501 the Spaniard Rodrigo de Bastidas, in the company of Juan de la Cosa and Vasco Núñez de Balboa, was the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus of Panama. In 1510 Diego de Nicuesa, another Spanish explorer, established the settlement of Nombre de Dios…
In 1500, Balboa joined Don Rodrigo de Bastidas on a journey to explore the northern coast of modern day South America. Balboa was one of several men sent to defend the expedition from hostile natives.
