Other Explorers

Vasco Núñez de Balboa, in 1513, he led an expedition that crossed the isthmus of Panama. He was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern coast and the first European city to establish a permanent American mainland.
           
                                    



The name America comes ferom Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian navigator who explored the coast of the New World after Columbus. He claimed to be the first person to set foot on the new continent.

                           
                                      



Ferdinand Magellan, in 1519, he led an expedition to find a sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The expedition departed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Seville) and continued along the coast of South America until reaching a strait that led to the Pacific Ocean.

                                   


Juan Sebastián Elcano, was the captain, he took the control of the expedition and led the return voyage.