THE FIRS VOYAGE AROUAND THE WORL

VASVO NUÑEZ DE BALBOA:  Spanish conquistador who discovered the American Pacific coast (Jerez de los Caballeros, Badajoz, 1475 - Acla, Panama, 1517). It Extremadura from the small nobility, sailed for India in 1501, in the expedition of Pedro de Bastidas who toured the coast of modern Colombia.

Failed to establish himself as a farmer on the island of Spanish (now Santo Domingo), he had to flee their creditors stowaway embarking in issuing Ojeda and Fernandez de Enciso, 1510; He admitted as a member of the expedition thanks to his knowledge of the coast that would explore, participated in the founding of Santa Maria de la Antigua, the first Spanish city on the mainland, which was named mayor.

Soon they began their struggles with other Spanish conquerors of the region, as Nicuesa, Ojeda and Enciso. In 1511 he managed to be appointed governor of the Darien region to which the name of Castilla del Oro gave the news circulating about fabulous wealth. He explored the Isthmus of Panama and joined the Spanish dominions; Spanish was the first to describe the Andes (1512); and in 1513 he discovered he called South Sea (Pacific Ocean), which Columbus had sought in vain to reach Asia.

Building on these successes, Balboa requested reinforcements to continue their conquests to the south of the continent, they probably would have taken him to Peru. But the intrigues of his enemies in the Spanish succeeded, however, he fell into disgrace and was replaced as governor by Pedrarias; Balboa was subject to him as advance of the South Sea and governor of the provinces of Coiba and Panama.

While Pedrarias destroyed all his work led by the desire to cancel the prestige and power of Nunez de Balboa, he continued his project of exploring the newly discovered sea: he founded the port of Acla on the Pacific coast and drove there three brigs , transporting dismantled across the isthmus. Before he could throw his expedition, Pedrarias did you capture using Pizarro and executed him, accusing him of treason                                                    

FERDINAN MAGELLAN:While in the service of Spain, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European voyage of discovery to circumnavigate the globe.           

SANLÚCAR DE BARRAMEDA:Sanlucar de Barrameda is a city and municipality located in the Spanish province of Cadiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Seated on the left bank of the estuary of the river Guadalquivir opposite the Doñana National Park, it is 53 km from the provincial capital Cadiz and 123 km from the regional capital Seville. Its population is 67 301 inhabitants (INE 2013).

The term of Sanlúcar has been inhabited since prehistory and antiquity, belonging to Tartessos at Turdetania, to Andalusia and several Andalusian territories. In the Middle Ages, after the Reconquest, the town of Sanlucar became part of the Kingdom of Seville and was granted in lordship in 1297 to Guzmán el Bueno, founding a powerful noble lineage that would be later known as home of Medina Sidonia.

Between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, the strategic location of Sanlucar made acquire relevance in the exploration, colonization, trade and evangelization of America, with important events in this period the downfall of the house of Medina Sidonia in 1641, the overall decline of Spain under Charles II, the transfer of the House of Hiring to Cadiz in 1711 and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

In 1833 it became part of the newly created province of Cadiz. In the nineteenth century the economic activity of the city was converted to viticulture and summer tourism, on a background of insecurity and social inequality. With great anarchist implementation during the Second Spanish Republic, it was from the beginning of the Civil War in the hands of the rebels, without suffering major damage.

In 1973 it was declared a historic-artistic. Since the restoration of democracy Sanlúcar has been ruled by parties across the political spectrum.

JUAN SEBASTIÁN ELCANO:" Elcano " redirects here . For other uses, see Elcano ( disambiguation ) .

" Sebastian Elcano " redirects here . For the writer , gourmet and Uruguayan critic who used the pseudonym , see Hugo García Robles.
Juan Sebastian Elcano
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Engraving of the 50s of XIX century where the sailor Juan Sebastian Elcano shown.
birth 1476
Guetaria , Guipúzcoa ,
Banner of arms crown of Castille Habsbourg style.svg Castilla
Death August 4, 1526
Pacific Ocean
Spanish Nationality
Occupation sailor , navigator and explorer.
Catholicism religious beliefs
Signature Signature Elcano.svg
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Juan Sebastian Elcano, also written Juan Sebastian de Elcano, Juan Sebastian del Cano and Juan Sebastian de Elcano ( Guetaria, 1476 - Pacific Ocean , August 4, 1526 ) was a Spanish sailor who participated in the first round the world , being the head of the expedition after the death of Ferdinand Magellan .