Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1475

Place of Birth: Jerez de los Caballeros, Extremadura, Spain

Date of Death: 12-Jan-1519

Profession: military personnel, politician, explorer

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Spanish pronunciation: ['basko 'nu?e? ðe ßal'ßo.a]; 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. 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 Colombia 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).