BALBOA, VASCO NUÑEZ DE


Meaning of BALBOA, VASCO NUÑEZ DE in English

Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de BrE AmE

(?1475–1519) a Spanish ↑ explorer who led the first lasting European town in South American, in Panama, in 1510. In 1513 he crossed the Isthmus of Panama and was the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean, which he then claimed, along with all the coasts it touched, for Spain.

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