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Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer who was born in 1475 at Jerez de los Caballeros, a town in the Spanish province of Extremadura.

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1. Balboa was falsely accused of treason and then beheaded on January 12, 1519.

2. Balboa tried to make a living as a farmer in the new Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, which is now the Dominican Republic, but he was unable to pay his creditors. In 1510, in an attempt to escape his situation, he stowed away with his dog, Leoncico, on board a ship in Santo Domingo harbor.

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In 1501 he left Spain with the expedition of Rodrigo de Bastidas, who had been inspired by reports from Christopher Columbus that pearls could be found on the northern coast of Venezuela.
In 1513, he led the first European expedition to the Pacific Ocean.

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He went from Spain in 1501, to the Caribbean Sea in 1502, then to Santo Domingo, after that he turns back the way he came and in 1513 he sighted the Pacific Ocean from Darien, and he then got executed in 1519 near Darien and Acla.

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Balboa was succesful as he was able to trade his European goods with the natives for a large amount of gold and pearls.

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"Vasco Núñez de Balboa." UXL Biographies, UXL, 2011. Student Resources in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ2108100154/SUIC?u=carljcths&xid=86778d03. Accessed 16 Oct. 2017.
2. https://www.thinglink.com/scene/698697811012616194
3. https://www.tes.com/lessons/_IXO0gQlgMg4vA/vasko-nunez-de-balboa