In 1508 took place the transcendental Junta de Burgos in which the king Fernando el Católico named the navigator Américo Vespuccio and Pilotos Reales as Chief Pilot to the explorers Juan de la Cosa, Juan Díaz de Solís and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón. In this meeting, the aim was to consolidate
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Rodrigo de Bastidas biography
Nacimiento: Sevilla (Spain) in 1445. Death: July 28,1527 in Santiago de Cuba. He died from the wounds sustained in an attack on him by his lieutenant general, Pedro de Villafuerte, in Santa Marta. Returning to Santo Domingo to heal the winds, they took him to Santiago de Cuba where he died. Burial:
Vasco Núñez de Balboa seizes power in Darien
Vasco Núñez de Balboa, from Jérez de los Caballeros (Badajoz - Spain), had crossed the Caribbean coasts in 1501 with Rodrigo de Bastidas. With the benefits he obtained in this expedition he bought several properties in Hispaniola Island where he worked as a farmer without great adventurous pretensions but things did