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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...
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    the Spanish explorer/conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa. The balboa is subdivided into 100 centésimos. The balboa replaced the Colombian peso in 1904...
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    The Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa is an order of Panama, instituted on 1 July 1941 (Ley No. 94 de 1 de julio de 1941). It is awarded for distinguished...
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    is named after Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the first European to sight the Pacific from the Americas. Balboa is primarily residential with some...
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  • Australia. The term was first coined as Mar de Sur, or “South Sea,”  by Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1513 and was applied to the entire area...
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  • informally known as "Balboa Hospital" Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475 – 1519), a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador Javier Balboa (born 1985), football...
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    The Statue of Vasco Núñez de Balboa is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. Located in the Ciudad Universitaria, next to the Museum of the Americas...
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    Christopher Columbus navigated near the Caribbean in 1502. In 1508, Vasco Núñez de Balboa accompanied an expedition to the territory through the region of...
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    in the New World. He went to the Gulf of Urabá, and accompanied Vasco Núñez de Balboa in his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama, where they became the...
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  • Vasco may refer to: Vasco da Gama (c. 1460s–1524), Portuguese explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519), Spanish conquistador Vasco Fernandes Coutinho...
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