Other explorers

Other explorers

-Vasco Núñez de Balboa 

 


Vasco Nunez de Balboa was born in 1475 in Jerez de los Caballeros, in the Spanish region of Extremadura . His family belonged to the minor nobility Extremadura , group traditionally dedicated to war and that after the discovery of America , enlisted in the conquering ranks. His education was typical of their social status ; he became a page of Pedro Portocarrero , lord of Moguer , where he trained as a squire .

I would die in January 1519 implemented in Acla . The reason for his execution would be betrayal of Castilla gold .



-Amerigo Vespucci

The name derives from "America" Amerigo Vespucci Amerigo Vespucci, in Castilian, navigator and Florentine merchant who in 1492 went to Seville to assist in the provision of ships destined for the Indian. In 1497, his travels began in South America, of which he wrote a relationship that was to form the basis of a series of publications on travel that had taken place along the coasts of the new continent, and the title of the which generally it was the name of the traveler.

In some works, such as the cosmography of Waldenmüller, the error of considering Vespucci as the discoverer of the New World is committed and even suggested that the name of Florentine given to the continent discovered.

This error is imposed over time. So it can be said that although a repeated error does not become truth, can become accepted as the name of an entire continent.



-Ferdinand  Magellan

 Magallanes belongs the glory of having found the passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, having crossed it, discovering Oceania and the Philippines and organizing around the world who performed his own expedition, he led after his death by Sebastián Elcano.

After spending many adventures in the South Seas, he managed to reach Spanish soil, was received by Charles V, who ennobled him with a coat of arms, which contained, on a globe, the famous inscription Primus circumdedistime.



-Juan Sebastián Elcano



















Spanish navigator who completed the first circumnavigation of the world (Guetaria, Guipúzcoa, 1476 - Pacific Ocean, 1526). The first news we have of him show him as a Basque sailor with ample nautical knowledge, who participated in the expedition of Cisneros to Algiers (1509) and the Italian campaigns of the Great Captain.