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    Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532–1592) was a Spanish adventurer, author, historian, mathematician, and astronomer. His birthplace is not certain and may...
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  • Pedro Sarmiento (cardinal) (c. 1478–1541) Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532–92), explorer Pedro Sarmiento, 3rd Marquis of Mancera (c. 1625–1715) This disambiguation...
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    engaging in sexual intercourse with a male. Spanish historian, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, wrote that by the time of Inca Yupanqui's reign, these women...
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    for these voyages was Spanish soldier Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa who arrived in Peru in 1557. Sarmiento de Gamboa developed an interest in Inca stories...
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  • effort took the form of a naval expedition led by veteran explorer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, which set sail from Cádiz in December 1581. The expedition established...
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  • this name on the exploration of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa's expedition in the area in 1579. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa had called a cove from where he...
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    Region of southern Chile. It is named after Spanish explorer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and gives its name to one of the areas in the National Park Torres...
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    Nombre de Jesús was a Spanish town in Patagonia, settled in 1584 by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa in the Magellan Strait. Nombre de Jesús also refers to the...
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    first reported by Pedro Cieza de León (1553) and later by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Similar accounts by Spanish chroniclers (e.g. Juan de Betanzos) describe...
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  • Manuel Sauceda Gamboa (died 2009), a Mexican mob boss Martín Ruiz de Gamboa (1533–1590), a Spanish Basque conquistador Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532–1592)...
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    190 mi)] from the court)".: Ch. VII  According to the chronicle of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa the chasqui service was established by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui...
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    Incas. Presses Universitaires de France. Cieza de León, Pedro. El Señorio de los Incas. Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro. Historia de los Incas. Cerrón-Palomino...
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  • was thought that Viracocha would re-appear in times of trouble. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa wrote that Viracocha was described as "a man of medium height...
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    Estrecho de la Madre de Dios - antes llamado de Magallanes (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 9, 2008. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, según Amancio...
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    was referred to as Inga Yupangui, with the Spanish navigator Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa additionally claiming Pachcuti's first name was Cusi. The compound...
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  • Luis Carlos Sarmiento, Colombian billionaire Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer Sarmiento (disambiguation) "sarmiento". Diccionario de la lengua...
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    Retrieved March 7, 2024. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (2006). "XXXI". In Clements R. Markham (ed.). History of the Incas (Historia de los Incas). London: Hakluyt...
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  • Cusco between 1571 and 1572, Toledo ordered Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and, through the bishop, Cristóbal de Molina, to provide such proof. Molina, thanks...
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  • Cordillera Sarmiento is a mountain range located in the Chilean Patagonia to the west of Puerto Natales named after Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, who was a...
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    caught Spanish explorer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Raleigh held Gamboa prisoner in his house and had long conversations with him. Gamboa passed messages to...
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    reforms later were called the Toledo Reforms. Toledo assigned Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa the task of writing a chronicle of prehispanic times in Peru by...
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    of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, as well as in the works of Martín de Murúa and Miguel Cabello de Balboa. Pedro Sarmiento described the expedition...
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    provincial in 1576. In 1579, the Viceroy dispatched a fleet under Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, partly to chase Sir Francis Drake on the coast, and partly to...
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  • angered the tribes that they were attempting to rule. (huaca). Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa wrote that there was a hill referred to as Tambotoco, about 33...
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  • oversees were done already earlier. See History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, 1572. Online version of the book, page 91; in English. This version...
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    geography of Patagonia owe much more to the Spanish explorer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1579–1580), who, devoting himself especially to the south-west...
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    Nevado" (Snowy Volcano) by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, who thought it was a volcano. Phillip Parker King named it Mount Sarmiento in honor of the mentioned...
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    Juan de Betanzos, the different versions of this story are related by: Bernabé Cobo, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Martin de Murúa, Pedro Cieza de León,...
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    Francisco de Toledo ordered Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa to explore the strait and found settlements on its shores. In 1584, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founded...
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    glacial deposit of sand or gravel. Spanish navigator and explorer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa commented that placer likely originated as a term derived from...
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