1513 CE

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Balboa bereikt de Pacific

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbasko ˈnuɲeθ ðe βalˈβo.a]; c. 1475 – around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, governor, conquistador, adelantado, and a pirate. He is best known for being the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean while crossing the Isthmus of Panama in 1513.

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Retrato de Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (1475-1517) - AnónimoAnonymous ( Spain ) Unknown author after a 18th-century engravingPublic domainWikimedia Commons
Monument över Vasco Núñez de BalboaNaval MuseumCC BY 4.0Europeana
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, reproduktion, Teckning, drawingMuseum of World CultureCC0Europeana
Vasco Núñez de Balboa por Enrique Pérez ComendadorArchivo de la Diputación Provincial de CáceresPublic domainEuropeana

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