Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–1519) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who first came to the Americas in 1500 as part of a voyage exploring the coast of present-day Colombia. He is most remembered for being the first European to view the Pacific Ocean in 1513. This event and other facts of Balboa’s life form the basis of Sabina Murray’s story, published in her book Tales of the New World (2011).
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