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    Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbasko ˈnuɲeθ ðe βalˈβo.a]; c. 1475 – around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, governor, and...
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    Spanish explorer and conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa. The balboa is subdivided into 100 centésimos. The balboa replaced the Colombian peso in 1904...
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    is named after Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the first European to sight the Pacific from the Americas. Balboa is primarily residential with some...
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    The Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa is an order of Panama, instituted on 1 July 1941 (Ley No. 94 de 1 de julio de 1941). It is awarded for distinguished...
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  • Australia. The term was first coined as Mar de Sur, or “South Sea,”  by Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1513 and was applied to the entire area...
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  • informally known as "Balboa Hospital" Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475 – 1519), a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador Javier Balboa (born 1985), football...
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    The Statue of Vasco Núñez de Balboa is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Located in the Ciudad Universitaria, next to the Museum of the Americas...
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  • administration. The town of Balboa, founded by the United States during the construction of the Panama Canal, was named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the Spanish conquistador...
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    Christopher Columbus navigated near the Caribbean in 1502. In 1508, Vasco Núñez de Balboa accompanied an expedition to the territory through the region of...
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    park was dedicated. Balboa Park was originally dedicated in 1909 and named after the explorer and conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa. The City stated plans...
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    Darién—turned into Dariena in the Latin of De Orbo Novo—was a Spanish colonial town founded in 1510 by Vasco Núñez de Balboa, located in present-day Colombia approximately...
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    was inhabited widely by Chibchan- and Chocoan-speaking peoples. Vasco Núñez de Balboa, a Spanish conquistador, was the first European to reach the Pacific...
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  • Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador Elizabeth Nunez, United States writer Hernán Núñez (1475–1553)...
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    Darién on the Americas mainland was founded in 1510. Vasco Nuñez de Balboa and Martín Fernández de Enciso agreed on the site near the mouth of the Tarena...
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    years later, Vasco Núñez de Balboa visited the Isthmus and established a short-lived settlement in the Darién. Vasco Núñez de Balboa's torturous trek...
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  • Vasco may refer to: Vasco da Gama (c. 1460s–1524), Portuguese explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–1519), Spanish conquistador Vasco Fernandes Coutinho...
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    in the New World. He went to the Gulf of Urabá, and accompanied Vasco Núñez de Balboa in his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama, where they became the...
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    Columbus Amerigo Vespucci Vasco Núñez de Balboa Gonçalo Álvares John Cabot Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri Jacques Cartier Samuel de Champlain Gaspar Corte-Real...
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    named after the Calle de Núñez de Balboa [es], which is named for the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa. "Línea 5". Metro de Madrid. Retrieved 6 September...
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    mainland America was Santa María la Antigua del Darién, founded by Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1510 and disestablished in 1524, just 14 years later. The department...
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    present-day Colombia, near the Gulf of Urabá, Spanish explorers led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa explored and conquered the area near the Atrato River. There they...
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    The backers knew that the first sighting of the Pacific Ocean by Vasco Núñez de Balboa was after crossing the isthmus through Darién. The expedition also...
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    to escape malarial mosquito populations on the mainland. Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Alonso de Ojeda explored the coast of Colombia in 1500 and 1501. They...
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  • Spanish arriving from the American coast. In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and encountered the Pacific Ocean...
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    in 1494. In 1513, this claim was reinforced by Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean, when he claimed...
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    islands to the mosquito populations on the mainland. Alonso de Ojeda and Vasco Núñez de Balboa explored the coast of Colombia in 1500 and 1501. They spent...
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    Santa María la Antigua del Darién. He initiated proceedings against Vasco Núñez de Balboa: 259  and conquered part of current Costa Rica. After living some...
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  • discovered by Vasco Núñez de Balboa. This town is mostly famous because it was the site of the judgement and decapitation of Núñez de Balboa in 1519 at the...
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    ferocious temperament and skills as his father. Ponce de León gave the puppy to Vasco Núñez de Balboa who was accompanied by Leoncillo in his battles on...
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    main thoroughfares in the San Fernando Valley. Balboa Boulevard was named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa, a Spanish explorer who with his crew was the first...
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