Follow Pascual de Andagoya through 2 dated historical records for Spain.
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
The native South Americans he encountered told him about a gold-rich territory called Viru, which was on a river called Piru (later corrupted to Peru) and from which they came. The first attempt to explore western South America was undertaken in 1522 by Pascual de Andagoya
The native South Americans he encountered told him about a gold-rich territory called Viru, which was on a river called Piru (later corrupted to Peru) and from which they came
These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.