Balboa was a Spanish explorer and conquistador whose full name was Vasco Nunez de Balboa. He was the first explorer from Europe to head an expedition that found its way to the Pacific Ocean.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, a governor, and a conquistador. He is mostly known for crossing the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, and being the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean from the New World (America).a explorer
It was not an explorer that coined the term 'New World', it was actually the Spanish scholar Peter Martyr d'Anghiera who first coined the term 'New World' (novi orbis) in a letter dated November 1st, 1492 in which he referred to Columbus first voyage to America
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish Explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.He traveled to the New World in 1500 and, after some exploration, settled on the island of Hispaniola. He founded the settlement of Santa María la Antigua del Darién in present-day Panama in 1510, which was the first permanent European settlement on the mainland of the Americas (a settlement by Alonso de Ojeda the previous year at San Sebastián de Urabá had already been abandoned).haywag says.... when he was a kid he worked for a wealthy family too. then he got wealthy too.
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first European to lead an expedition to the Pacific Ocean. He was a Spanish explorer.
The official currency of Panama is the Balboa, named after the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. The Balboa is pegged to the US Dollar and both currencies circulate in Panama.
He was the first Spanish explorer to see the Pacific Ocean.
He was the first Spanish explorer to see the Pacific Ocean.
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Magellan was an explorer born in Portugal, but sailed for Spain. He was the first European explorer to circumnavigate the world. He named the Pacific Ocean Pacific. Balboa was a Spanish explorer who first sailed the Isthmus of Panama and claimed it for Spain. He was the first to see, not cross, the Pacific Ocean which at that time was called the Ocean Sea.