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Balboa, Vasco Nъсez de - English
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Spanish conquistador, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean. After sailing with Bastidas in 1501, Balboa probably went to Hispaniola. In 1510, fleeing from creditors, he hid on the vessel that took Enciso to Panama. After reaching Dariйn, Balboa took command, deposed the incompetent Enciso, and sent him to Spain as a prisoner.

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1Up Info - Balboa, Vasco Nъсez de (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia - English
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1475–1519, Spanish conquistador, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean. After sailing with Bastidas in 1501, Balboa probably went to Hispaniola. In 1510, fleeing from creditors, he hid on the vessel that took Enciso to Panama.

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Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa? - English
URL: http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/whoisvas_bi.html

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THE Pacific Ocean, whose waters lave the western shores of our Republic along a distance, as a bird flies, of sixteen degrees of latitude, from San Diego on the south to Cape Flattery on the north, was discovered by one of the Spanish adventurers who accompanied the expedition under Nicuessa, to the coasts of Central America. That discoverer was Vasco Nunez de Balboa, an active and energetic young man of noble lineage but of small fortune, who crossed the Atlantic to the West Indies in search of wealth, in the year 1501.

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Vasco Nъсez de Balboa - English
URL: http://www.virtualology.com/virtualmuseumofhistory/hallofexplorers/VASCONUNEZDEB

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Spanish discoverer, born in Xeres de los Caballeros, Extremadura, Spain, in 1475; died in Castilla de Ore, Darien, in 1517. He was a bankrupt nobleman who escaped from his creditors to Hispaniola and afterward joined an expedition under Martin Fernandez do Enciso, one of Ojeda's lieutenants, to the latter's Darien colony of San Sebastian.

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Discoverers Web: Balboa - English
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Balboa sailed to Hispaniola in 1501 on an expedition under Rodrigo de Bastidas and Juan de la Cosa. During this voyage they crossed the Gulf of Urabб (on the coast of present-day Columbia), and saw the indian village of Dariйn in present-day Panama. In Hispaniola Balboa settled down as a planter. However, he soon amassed a large amount of debts, and to escape from his creditors he hijacked on a supplyship headed for San Sebastian on the Gulf of Uraiba, hidden in a cask. The ship was commanded by Martнn Fernбndez de Enciso.

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com - English
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean (in 1513), crossing the Isthmus of Panama.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Vasco Nunez de Balboa - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02216c.htm

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Discoverer of the Pacific Ocean from the west coast of Central America, born in Spain, 1475, either at Badajoz or at Jerez de los Caballeros; died at Darien, 1517.

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Васко Нуньес Де Бальбоа - Russian
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Первым из европейцев в 1513 пересек Панамский перешеек и достиг берегов Тихого океана (29 сентября 1513 года), который назвал «Южным морем». Испанский конкистадор. Открыл Жемчужные острова.

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Бальбоа, Васко Нуньес - Russian
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Васко Нуньес де Бальбоа родился в Испании, в местечке Херес де-лос-Кабаллерос, в Эстремадуре. В молодости он вел разгульную жизнь, в результате которой он оказался на острове Эспаньола (теперь - Гаити). Там он получил участок земли, однако его хозяйство не приносило большого дохода, и он наделал множество долгов. Скрываясь от кредиторов, Бальбоа тайно бежал, спрятавшись в бочке на борту одно из кораблей экспедиции Мартина Эрнандеса Эрсисо, направлявшейся к Дарьенскому заливу.

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