OTHER EXPLORERS

   1- Vasco Núñez de Balboa :         He was a pioneer, explorer and Spanish conqueror ruling. It was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern coast and the first European city to establish a permanent American mainland. In 1500, encouraged by his master and news of the voyages of Christopher Columbus and other navigators to the New World, he decided to enroll in issuing Rodrigo de Bastidas the Caribbean Sea. Following its pilot Bastidas and Juan de la Cosa in 1501 he crossed the coasts of the Caribbean Sea from the east of Panama, through the Gulf of Uraba to Cape de la Vela (now Colombia). The ships finally headed to the Spanish island where one sank. Balboa, with the gains made in this campaign, bought land on the island and lived there several years dealing with farming and raising pigs. But he did not have much luck in this activity: the weather was adverse, because it is an area highly exposed to hurricanes; Island residents were living in poverty, and wild pigs represented a competition for their productos. Balboa began to borrow and finally saw no alternative but to flee the island.

In 1508, King Ferdinand submitted to contest the conquest of the mainland. Two new governorates were created in the lands between the ends of the candle (present Colombia) and thank God (now on the border between Honduras and Nicaragua). The Gulf of Uraba was taken as limit of both governments: Nueva Andalucía east, governed by Alonso de Ojeda, and Veragua to the west, governed by Diego de Nicuesa.

  2- Amerigo Vespucci:  He was a merchant and Florentino cosmographer, naturalized Castilian un 1505, who participated un at least two voyages of exploration to the new world continent that today is called América in his honor. He help important positions in the house of trade in Seville, which was named "Chief Pilot" in 1508; but its universal fame is due to two works published under his name between 1503 and 1505: Mundus Novus and the letter to Soderinni, who attributed a leading role un the discovery of América and its identification as a new continent. For this reason the cartographer Martin Waldseemüllerin his map of 1507 coined the name 'América' un his honor as a designation for the new wold. The story often fanciful and contradictory of his travels have located  one of the most controversial figures of the age of discovery.

  3-Ferdinand Magellan:  It was a military, marine and Portuguese navigator of noble lineage, named by hispanic monarchy advance, commander un chief of the "Army for discovering the spices and knight of the Order of Santiago. 

The service of Charles I, discovered the natural channel navigable today called Strait of Magellan, the first European to go sailing from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, previously called South sea. He began the expedition, led to his death by Juan Sebastian Elcano, to achieve the first circumnavigation of the earth un 1522.

  4- Juan Sebastian Elcano:  He was a spanish sailor participated un the first round the world, being at the head of the expedition after the death of Ferdinand Magellan.