Isthmus of Panama
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The Isthmus of Panama, historically known as the Isthmus of Darien, is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America. The country
An 1850 oil painting by Charles Christian Nahl: The Isthmus of Panama on the Height of the Chagres River
Francis Samuel Marryat, Crossing The Isthmus Of Panama, 1855
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, conquistador, adelantado, and a pirate. He is best known for being the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean while crossing the Isthmus o
Isthmus of Panama
…Chichin Itza in the Yucatán Peninsula. By 1501, when Europeans first arrived, the isthmus was inhabited widely by Chibchan- and Chocoan-speaking peoples. Vasco Núñez de Balboa, a Spanish conquistador, was the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean on 25 September 1513, then called the "South Sea" as it was on the south…
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Firma de Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
View of Jerez de los Caballeros
The discovery of the Pacific by Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Panama – 9/25/1513, painting by Matthias Laurenz Gräff (2009/10)