OTHERS EXPLORERS
VASCO NUÑEZ DE BALBOA: 1 Septembre 1513, Spanish conquistador Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1517 or 1519), born in Jerez de los Caballeros (Badajoz), departed from Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darien, along the Caribbean Sea (in the current Colombia), the first city in continental America, which had been founded two years earlier. The expedition, consisting of 190 Spaniards and a thousand Indians, arrived at the port on lands of cacique mask and with great difficulty crossed the Isthmus of Panama in search of a new sea, he had spoken indigenous. The September 25, 1513, following the instructions of indigenous guides, Balboa climbed to a peak and first beheld the Pacific, the largest in the world.
AMERIGO VESPUCCI: Amerigo Vespucci (Florence 1451-Sevilla 1512) After the death of Berardi (1496), decided to pursue navigation. He became interested in travel Colón.En his first trip believed he had sailed along the coast of the eastern peninsula of Asia and eventually reach the Indian Ocean. Such was the goal of his second expedition, but Spain rejected its proposals and in 1500 entered the service of Portugal. He hoped that the seaworthiness of the Portuguese ships better serve their plans. He sailed from Lisbon on May 13, 1501 in command of three ships, heading to Brazil via the Cape Verde Islands, discovered the bay of Rio de Janeiro and continued further south along the coast of Patagonia, approaching the strait discovered Magellan.
FERDINAND MAGELLAN:In 1519,Ferdinand Magellan led an expedition to find a sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.The expeditions departed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda(Seville)and continued along the coast of South America until reaching a strait that led to the PacIsa ific Ocean.During the long voyage,Magellan reached to Mariana Islands and then the Philippines.He died in the Philippines,trying to subdue the indigenous peoples.His captain,Juan Sebastián Elcano,took control of the expedition and led the return voyage.
