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Diego de Almagro

1475 - 1538

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Diego de Almagro (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣo ðe alˈmaɣɾo]; c. 1475 – July 8, 1538), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Spanish conquistador known for his exploits in western South America. He participated with Francisco Pizarro in the Spanish conquest of Peru. While subduing the Inca Empire he laid the foundation for Quito and Trujillo as Spanish cities in present-day Ecuador and Peru respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diego de Almagro has received more than 336,398 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Diego de Almagro is the 47th most popular explorer (up from 51st in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from Spain (down from 147th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Spanish Explorer.

Diego de Almagro is most famous for being the first European to explore Chile and Peru. He was also a Spanish conquistador who participated in the conquest of Peru, Chile, and Bolivia.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Diego de Almagro ranks 47 out of 405Before him are Zhang Qian, Ingólfr Arnarson, Sven Hedin, William Baffin, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, and Giovanni da Verrazzano. After him are Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Jacob Roggeveen, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Richard Francis Burton, William Adams, and Hugh Glass.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1475, Diego de Almagro ranks 6Before him are Michelangelo, Pope Leo X, Cesare Borgia, Paolo Uccello, and Vasco Núñez de Balboa. After him are Beatrice d'Este, Sebastiano Serlio, Bernardino Luini, Afonso, Prince of Portugal, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, and Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick. Among people deceased in 1538, Diego de Almagro ranks 3Before him are Hatice Sultan and Albrecht Altdorfer. After him are Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy, Andrea Gritti, Elena Glinskaya, Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Askia Mohammad I, Charles II, Duke of Guelders, Pierre Robert Olivétan, and Estêvão Gomes.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Diego de Almagro ranks 167 out of 2,932Before him are Carlos Saura (1932), Berengaria of Navarre (1165), Enrique Iglesias (1975), Alfonso II of Aragon (1157), Abd al-Rahman II (788), and John I of Castile (1358). After him are Felipe VI of Spain (1968), Philip, Duke of Parma (1720), Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (1535), Enrique Granados (1867), Francisco Suárez (1548), and Elizabeth of Portugal (1271).

Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Diego de Almagro ranks 7Before him are Hernán Cortés (1485), Francisco Pizarro (1478), Juan Sebastián Elcano (1476), Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475), Francisco de Orellana (1511), and Juan Ponce de León (1460). After him are Lope de Aguirre (1518), Hernando de Soto (1500), Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465), Alonso de Ojeda (1466), Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1460), and Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira (1542).