Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (1475-1519). Spanish conquistador. He discovered the Pacific Ocean or South Sea on 25 September of 1513. Engraving of 1726 depicting Balboa taking possession of the South Sea and all adjoining lands for Spain in 1513.

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