Vasco Núñez de Balboa
c. 1475–1519
Spanish explorer who was the first European to see the Pacific from the Americas.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475–1519) was an explorer, born in Jerez de los Caballeros and died in Acla.
- Known as
- Explorer
- Category
- Explorers
- Born
- c. 1475, Jerez de los Caballeros
- Died
- 1519, Acla
Alive at the same time as Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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Portrait: Anonymous (Spain)Unknown author after a 18th-century engraving, Public domain.
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