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Rodrigo de Bastidas

1460 - 1527

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Rodrigo de Bastidas (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈðɾiɣo ðe βasˈtiðas]; Triana, Seville, Andalusia, c. 1465 – Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 28 July 1527) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who mapped the northern coast of South America, discovered Panama, and founded the city of Santa Marta. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rodrigo de Bastidas has received more than 104,545 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Rodrigo de Bastidas is the 227th most popular explorer (down from 217th in 2019), the 831st most popular biography from Spain (down from 781st in 2019) and the 40th most popular Spanish Explorer.

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  • 20

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Rodrigo de Bastidas ranks 227 out of 405Before him are Lady Hester Stanhope, Julius Popper, Niccolò de' Conti, Nikolaus Federmann, Thorvald Asvaldsson, and Pedro Arias Dávila. After him are Douglas Mawson, Dinis Dias, Juan de Garay, Alexandrine Tinné, Edward Bransfield, and Carl Anton Larsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1460, Rodrigo de Bastidas ranks 23Before him are Pierre de la Rue, Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Johannes Widmann, Svante Nilsson, and Johann Froben. After him are Georges d'Amboise, Antoine Brumel, Catherine of Foix, Countess of Candale, Eric Trolle, John Skelton, and William Dunbar. Among people deceased in 1527, Rodrigo de Bastidas ranks 9Before him are Diego Columbus, Juan de Grijalva, Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona, Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Johann Froben. After him are Felix Manz and Catherine of York.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Rodrigo de Bastidas ranks 831 out of 2,932Before him are Constance of Aragon, Queen of Sicily (1343), Lorenzo Fernández (1900), Ramón Calderón (1951), Muhammad III of Córdoba (976), Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples (1454), and Pedro Arias Dávila (1443). After him are Juan de Valdés (1505), Luis Fernández (1959), Francisco Ayala (1906), García Jiménez of Pamplona (800), Juan Ruiz (1283), and Gaspar Cassadó (1897).

Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Rodrigo de Bastidas ranks 40Before him are Francisco de Bobadilla (1500), Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (1499), Francisco de Montejo (1479), Pedro Cieza de León (1520), Ruy López de Villalobos (1500), and Pedro Arias Dávila (1443). After him are Juan de Garay (1528), Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519), Juan Fernández (1536), Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548), Félix de Azara (1742), and Francisco de Ulloa (1501).