- Vasco Núñez de Balboa - Wikipedia
He is best known for crossing the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, [2] becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World [3] He traveled to the New World in 1500 and, after some exploration, settled on the island of Hispaniola
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- Vasco Nunez de Balboa | Accomplishments, Route, Facts | Britannica
The colonists soon deposed Enciso, Ojeda’s second in command, and elected a town council; one of its two alcaldes, or magistrates, was Balboa With the subsequent departure of Enciso for Hispaniola, Balboa became the undisputed head of the colony
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Balboa is a district of Panama City, located at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal It was the capital of the Panama Canal Zone under American administration
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- Vasco Núñez de Balboa - World History Encyclopedia
Balboa helped establish the town of Darién, the first permanent Spanish settlement on the American mainland Extracting gold from Panama and instituting slavery and forced labour to work on plantations, Balboa was ultimately outwitted by a Spanish rival who had him tried and executed for treason
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