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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Jerez de los Caballeros, Sierra Suroeste, Badajoz

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Curiosity · Jerez de los Caballeros, Sierra Suroeste, Badajoz

The explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, was born around 1475 in Jerez de los Caballeros, which claims him as one of its illustrious native sons.

Nacimiento: hacia 1475

Photo: Luis Rogelio HM (CC BY-SA 2.0)

What to see and do in Jerez de los Caballeros