Vasco used a legal maneuver to remove the mayor Fernandez de Enciso from power, as he had grown very unpopular with the settlers. A municipal council was elected and Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Martin Samudio were elected as alcaldes. The governor Diego de Nicuesa attempted to take over Santa Maria but was unsuccessful and was sent to sea aboard a boat that was no seaworthy.
He was never heard from again. Vasco Nunez de Balboa became the governor of all of Veragua which gave him absolute authority. Vasco sent a ship back to Spain with a request for more supplies and men, and continued to explore the New World. Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who participated in the conquests of Central America and Peru and discovered the Mississippi River.
Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama was commissioned by the Portuguese king to find a maritime route to the East. He was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India.
Sometimes called the father of modern art, Spanish artist Francisco de Goya painted royal portraits as well as more subversive works in late s and early s. During the homestretch I cheat a little—OK, a lot—by riding in a piragua. Sandbanks erupt in butterfly confetti as our canoe putters by. According to legend, he and Leoncico clambered up the rise together, conquistador and conquistadog.
From a hilltop clearing Balboa looked south, saw a vast expanse of water and, dropping to his knees, raised eyes and arms heavenward. Then he called his men to join him. The only sign of humanity is a circle of stones in which a Bible, sheathed in plastic, lays open to the Book of Matthew. Having summited the historic peak, I, too, raise my fists in exultation. If Balboa had a rocky start, he had a Rocky finish.
He had seen breakers from afar, but now an uninviting sand flat stretched for a mile or more. He had muffed the tides. Brandishing a standard of Madonna in his right hand and a raised sword in his left, he claimed the whole shebang not quite knowing exactly how big a shebang it was for God and Spain. My own party skips the beachhead. Hopping aboard the piragua, Navarro and I head for the backwater settlement of Cucunati.
For three years Navarro has been canvassing voters across Panama, from the big, shiny cities to frontier outposts where no presidential hopeful has gone before. At an impromptu town meeting in Cucunati, residents air their frustrations about the lack of electricity, running water and educational funding. Nearby is a toothpaste tree, so named because it oozes a milky sap that has proven to be an effective dentifrice when used in a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional care.
Twined around an enormous cuipo is a strangler fig. Around , he joined a Spanish expedition that explored the coast of present-day Colombia, then returned to the island of Hispaniola present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic and sought to make his living as a farmer. The colony had been largely abandoned by the time they arrived, after local natives killed many of the colonists. Under his authority, the Spaniards dealt harshly with native inhabitants of the region in order to get gold and other riches; from some of these Indians, they learned that a wealthy empire lay to the south possibly a reference to the Incas.
In September , Balboa led an expedition of some Spaniards and a number of Indians southward across the Isthmus of Panama. He also reluctantly gave him permission to mount another expedition to explore and conquer the Mar del Sur and its surrounding lands.
Balboa began these explorations in , after having a fleet of ships painstakingly built and transported in pieces over the mountains to the Pacific. Suspecting Balboa would speak against him, and fearing his influence and popularity, Pedrarias summoned the explorer home and had him arrested and tried for rebellion and high treason, among other charges.
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