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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

1475 - 1519

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbasko ˈnuɲeθ ðe βalˈβo.a]; c. 1475 – around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasco Núñez de Balboa has received more than 1,743,122 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia. Vasco Núñez de Balboa is the 29th most popular explorer (up from 31st in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Spain (down from 71st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Spanish Explorer.

Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Vasco Núñez de Balboa ranks 29 out of 405. Before him are Leif Erikson, Vitus Bering, Juan Sebastián Elcano, Thor Heyerdahl, Willem Barentsz, and Henry Morton Stanley. After him are John Cabot, Pytheas, Francisco de Orellana, Evliya Çelebi, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and Juan Ponce de León.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1475, Vasco Núñez de Balboa ranks 5. Before him are Michelangelo, Pope Leo X, Cesare Borgia, and Paolo Uccello. After him are Diego de Almagro, 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 1519, Vasco Núñez de Balboa ranks 4. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Lucrezia Borgia. After him are Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, Johann Tetzel, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, Michael Wolgemut, Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, Juan de Flandes, Hōjō Sōun, and Ambrosius Holbein.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Vasco Núñez de Balboa ranks 74 out of 2,932. Before him are Santiago Bernabéu Yeste (1895), Louis I of Spain (1707), Luis Suárez (1935), Francisco Gento (1933), Lucan (39), and Muhammad XII of Granada (1459). After him are Alfonso XII of Spain (1857), Abbas ibn Firnas (810), Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021), José Ortega y Gasset (1883), Josep Borrell (1947), and Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba (1507).

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Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Vasco Núñez de Balboa ranks 4. Before him are Hernán Cortés (1485), Francisco Pizarro (1478), and Juan Sebastián Elcano (1476). After him are Francisco de Orellana (1511), Juan Ponce de León (1460), Diego de Almagro (1475), Lope de Aguirre (1518), Hernando de Soto (1500), Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465), Alonso de Ojeda (1466), and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1460).

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