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  2. Dec 18, 2009 · The 16th-century Spanish conquistador and explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent at Darién, on the coast of the Isthmus...

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  3. Jul 7, 2017 · See the events in life of Vasco Núñez De Balboa in Chronological Order. Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa was one of the most important and influential explorers in the 16th century. This biography of Balboa profiles his childhood, life, expeditions, achievements and timeline.

  4. Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador and explorer, who was head of the first stable settlement on the South American continent (1511) and who was the first European to sight the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean (on September 25 [or 27], 1513, from ‘a peak in Darien’ on the Isthmus of Panama.

  5. Feb 9, 2024 · Kids Encyclopedia Facts. Vasco Núñez de Balboa ( c. 1475 – around January 12–21, 1519) 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.

  6. (1475–1519). The first European to look upon the Pacific Ocean from the shores of the New World was Vasco Núñez de Balboa. The Spanish adventurer and explorer also led a colony in what is now Panama that was the first stable European settlement on the mainland of the Americas.

  7. May 31, 2012 · Vasco Nunez de Balboa (c. 1475 – around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish Conquistador and governor. He is known for being the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean on a mission to try and find a spice trade route to Asia. Balboa also accomplished founding the first permanent settlement on the mainland of the New World.

  8. Vasco Nunez De Balboa was a Spanish conquistador, an explorer for Spain, who helped set up the first real European settlement in South America and found the Pacific Ocean. He founded Santa Maria ...