Francisco Pizarro13 February 1502
Sails from Spain with the newly appointed Governor of Hispaniola, Nicolas de Ovando y Caceres, on a fleet of 30 ships, the largest fleet that had ever sailed to the New World
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Sails from Spain with the newly appointed Governor of Hispaniola, Nicolas de Ovando y Caceres, on a fleet of 30 ships, the largest fleet that had ever sailed to the New World
Pizarro accompanied Vasco Nunez de Balboa in his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama and they became the first Europeans to view the Pacific coast of the New World
Pizarro accompanied Vasco Nunez de Balboa in his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama and they became the first Europeans to view the Pacific coast of the New World
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
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