That would be the Pacific Ocean.
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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.
Oh, dude, Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer who did some exploring in the 1500s. His family and friends were probably other Spanish explorers and some Spanish people he knew. Like, I'm sure he had a cousin or two who were like, "Hey, Vasco, good luck with that whole crossing the Isthmus of Panama thing!"
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
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.