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In 1509, wishing to escape his creditors in Santo Domingo, Balboa set sail as a stowaway, hiding inside a barrel together with his dog Leoncico, in the expedition commanded by the Alcalde Mayor of Nueva Andalucía, Martín Fernández de Enciso, whose mission it was to aid Alonso de Ojeda, his superior.
In 1509, wishing to escape his creditors in Santo Domingo, Balboa left the island as a stowaway, hiding inside a flour barrel together with his dog "Leoncico," in the expedition commanded by the Alcalde Mayor of Nueva Andalucía, Martín Fernández de Enciso, whose mission it was to aid Alonso de Ojeda, his superior. De Ojeda, together with ...
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- Vasco da Gama Establishes the First Ocean Trade Route from Europe to India and Asia.
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After settling on Hispaniola, he failed as a farmer, and in 1510 he escaped his creditors by stowing away on a vessel bound for the coast of Urabá (Colombia).
- VASCO Data Security International, Inc.
- Vasco da Gama Establishes the First Ocean Trade Route from Europe to India and Asia.
- Vasco da Gama.
- Vascar.
He was also an authentic visionary.”. Navarro has been following in Balboa’s bootsteps since the summer of 1984. He had graduated from Dartmouth College and was about to begin a master’s ...
The significance of Vasco Núñez de Balboa naming the Pacific Ocean extends both geographically and historically. When Balboa reached the summit of the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and beheld the vast body of water, he named it the "South Sea" (Mar del Sur) because of its location relative to the Isthmus.
