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Balboa
Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador (c. 1475–1519)

Balboa

Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, conquistador, adelantado, and a pirate.

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He is best known for being the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean while crossing the Isthmus of Panama in 1513.

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