Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Also spelled: Balboa
Definition
The Spanish conquistador who crossed the isthmus in 1513 and sighted the Pacific from American land. He was beheaded six years later in Acla on the governor's orders. Panama's currency carries his name.
Example
Balboa's crossing fixed the isthmus as the passage between two seas.La travesía de Balboa fijó al istmo como paso entre dos mares.
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