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The heroic voyage of Vasco Núñez de Balboa

by Jorge Domecq, Ambassador of Spain - October 29, 2013 - 12:00am

On the 25th of September 1513, the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, with only 190 men, a small two-masted ship and 10 indigenous canoes, caught sight of the new ocean from a summit on the Isthmus...

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