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    Vasco (Nunez de Balboa) Nuñez de Balboa (1475 - 1519)

    VascoNuñez de Balboa formerly Nunez de Balboa

    Born in Jerez de los Caballeros, Extremadura, Castile, Spain

    Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

    [sibling(s) unknown]

    [spouse(s) unknown]

    [children unknown]

    Died at about age 44in Acla, near Darién, Panama

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    Biography

    Vasco (Nunez de Balboa) Nuñez de Balboa is Notable.

    Vasco Núñez de Balboa, (1475-1519), Conquistador, Explorer, Politician

    Achievement: Being the first recorded European to see the Pacific Ocean from the American continent.

    Timeline/Highlights

    In 1500, Balboa signed on to an expedition led by Rodrigo de Bastidas. Bastidas's Expedition was to explore modern day Venezuela. King Fernando II gave Bastidas two ships and the expedition set sail in 1501.

    The ships reached the New World soon after and sailed up and down the coast o