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                                Vasco Nuñez de Balboa



       Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Jerez de los Caballeros, now the province of Badajoz, c 1475 -. Acla, Panama Current, January 15, 1519) was a pioneer, explorer and Spanish conqueror ruling. It was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern coast and the first European city to establish a permanent American mainland
Vasco Nunez de Balboa was born around 1475 in the frontier town of Jerez de los Caballeros, which was then called Jerez near Badajoz and belonged to the Order of Santiago.1

The name comes from the castle Balboa Balboa, near Villafranca del Bierzo, in the present province of Leon (Spain). It is believed that his father was the gentleman Alvaro Nunez (or Martinez) Balboa, 2 but who his mother was not known almost nothing. He had at least three brothers Gonzalo, of notary profession, Juan and Alvaro. It is uncertain bit of his childhood, except that he learned to read and write, unlike other Spanish conquerors, 3 and esgrima.4

During his teenage years he served as a page and squire of Pedro Portocarrero, VIII Mr. of Moguer. He lived in Cordoba and had Sevilla.5 house in Moguer Perhaps it was witnessing the preparations and development of Columbus' first voyage to the Indies



                                   Amerigo Vespucio

              Amerigo Vespucci (Italian Amerigo Vespucci 1 / ameriɡo vesputtʃi /) (9 March 1454.2 Florence - February 22, 1512, Sevilla) was a Florentine merchant and cosmógrafo, naturalized Castilian in 1505, who participated in at least two trips exploration to the New World continent that today is called America in his honor. He held important positions in the House of Trade in Seville, which was named "Chief Pilot" in 1508; but its universal fame is due to two works published under his name between 1503 and 1505: the Mundus Novus and the letter to Soderini, who attributed a leading role in the discovery of America and its identification as a new continent. For this reason the cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in his map of 1507 coined the name "America" ​​in his honor as a designation for the New World. The story often fanciful and contradictory of his travels have located one of the most controversial figures of the Age of Discovery.




                                               Ferdinan Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan (in ancient and modern Portuguese: Fernando de Magalhães or Fernão de Magalhães; Sabrosa, Northern Region, Portugal, spring 1480-Mactan, Philippines, April 27, 1521), also known as Ferdinand Magellan, was a military, marine and Portuguese navigator of noble lineage, named by Hispanic Monarchy advance, commander in chief of the "Armed to the discovery of spices" and knight of the Order of Santiago.


The service of Charles I, discovered the natural channel navigable today called Strait of Magellan, the first European to go sailing from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, previously called South Sea. He began the expedition, led to his death by Juan Sebastian Elcano, to achieve the first circumnavigation of the Earth in 1522


                                 Juan Sebastian el Cano

Juan Sebastian Elcano, also written Juan Sebastian de Elcano, Juan Sebastian del Cano and Juan Sebastian de Elcano (Guetaria, 1476-Pacific Ocean, August 4, 1526) was a Spanish sailor who participated in the first round the world, being the head of the expedition after the death of Fernando de Magallanes.Era son of Catherine the port and Juan Domingo Elcano. From a young age, he enlisted in fishing and commercial boats, so it took great seafaring experience. In 1509 he took part in the expedition against Algiers, which was directed by Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros. The return of the same, settled in Seville, and it was there that I learned of the project being prepared by the Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan, to discover a route to India by the West, through a passage or strait through Southern America, to carry the Spice Islands without skirting the African continent or cross domains portugueses.1


That was how in 1519 Elcano enlisted in Magellan's expedition as foreman of the Conception, one of five making up the fleet ship.