Other Exploreres

Vasco Nuñez de Balboa he was a pioneer, explorer and Spanish conqueror ruling. It was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern coast and the first European city to establish a permanent American mainland.On the morning of September 25, 1513, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, from the heights of the mountains of Chucunaque River in the current Panama, sights amazed an unknown sea that called South Sea due to the orientation of that part of the coast in the environment today called Gulf of San Miguel.

Amerigo Vespucci he was a merchant and Florentine cosmographer, naturalized Castilian in 1505, who participated in at least two voyages of exploration to the New World continent that today is called America in his honor. He held important positions in the House of Trade in Seville, which was named "Chief Pilot" in 1508; but its universal fame is due to two works published under his name between 1503 and 1505: the Mundus Novus and the letter to Soderini, who attributed a leading role in the discovery of America and its identification as a new continent.

Ferdinand Magellan the service of Charles I, discovered the natural channel navigable today called the Strait of Magellan, the first European to go sailing from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, previously called South Sea. He began the expedition, led to his death by Juan Sebastian Elcano, to achieve the first circumnavigation of the Earth in 1522.

Juan Sebastian Elcano was a Spanish sailor who participated in the first round the world. The Trinidad sailed badly and fell in Tidore port for repair and return across the Pacific to Panama. Elcano finally took command of the expedition back. He had trouble returning to Spain with what remained of the expedition, without knowing the way back across the Pacific, and seemed crazy to try, so chose navigate the Portuguese seas westward along known routes and Africa with possibilities for watery.