![]() ![]() After falling into debt, he fled his creditors by stowing away on an expedition carrying supplies to the colony of San Sebastian, located on the coast of Urabá (now Colombia), in 1510.ĭid you know? The Spanish region of Extremadura, where Vasco Núñez de Balboa was born, was home to many other famous New World conquistadors, including Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Hernando de Soto and Francisco de Orellana. His father was believed to be a nobleman, but the family was not wealthy like many of his class, Balboa decided to seek his fortune in the New World.Īround 1500, he joined Spanish explorers on an expedition 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. Balboa was born in 1475 in Jerez de los Caballeros, a town in the impoverished Extremadura region of Spain. ![]()
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