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The Most Famous

EXPLORERS from Panama

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This page contains a list of the greatest Panamanian Explorers. The pantheon dataset contains 405 Explorers, 1 of which were born in Panama. This makes Panama the birth place of the 37th most number of Explorers behind Iran and Japan.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Panamanian Explorers of all time. This list of famous Panamanian Explorers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Diego de Almagro II (1520 - 1542)

With an HPI of 54.18, Diego de Almagro II is the most famous Panamanian Explorer.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Diego de Almagro II (1520 – September 16, 1542), called El Mozo (the lad), was the son of Spanish conquistador Diego de Almagro and Ana Martínez, a native Panamanian Indian woman.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as explorers born between 1520 and 1520. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased explorers include Diego de Almagro II.

Deceased Explorers

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