Vasco Nez De Balboa
Vasco Nez de Balboa is a Spanish, born in Jerez de los Caballeros ( the Kingdom of Castile ) in 1475 and died in Acla , in Panama today, in 1519.
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Biography
Vasco Nez de Balboa is the founder in 1510 of Santa Mara la Antigua del Darien , the first permanent colony on the Tierra Firme in the current British. It is famous for having discovered the 25 September 1513 , the Pacific Ocean (name subsequently granted by Magellan in 1520) he claimed on behalf of the kings of Spain, after crossing the Isthmus of Darien at the current frontier of Colombia and Panama. He then crossed the Isthmus by ascending the great river Atrato , who was leading in the area of gold deposits of Choco , controlled by Indians Kuna. These last three times repel the assaults of the conquerors , the third attempt to gather an army of 300 men, while Balboa having folded toward the other Isthmus of Panama, one in which the canal will be dug a few centuries later.
Vasco Nunez Balboa died in 1519, beheaded by order of Governor Pedro Arias Dvila said "Pedrarias," Governor of the Province of Castille d'Or.
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Bibliography
- Henri Beuchat, Domingo Vaca, Discovery and Kuna Indians of the region's gold: Manual de Arqueologa Americana
- G. Landelle of "Vasco Nunez de Balboa," published in New Journal newspaper, 1844.
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