Vicente Yáñez Pinzón

Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (Palos de la Frontera (Spain) c. 1460 – after 1523) was a Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador. Along with his older brother Martin Alonzo Pinzón, he sailed with Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World in 1492, as captain of the "Niña".

Biography

In 1499, Pinzón sailed to the South American coast. Carried by a strong storm, he reached the north coast of what today is Brazil on January 26, 1500. Pinzón disembarked on the shore called Praia do Paraíso, Cabo de Santo Agostinho, State of Pernambuco. According to the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), Spain could make no claim, but that place was named "Cabo de Santa Maria de la Consolación" by Pinzón. He also sighted the Amazon River and ascended to a point about fifty metres from the sea. He called it the "Río Santa María de la Mar Dulce", thus becoming the first explorer to discover an estuary of the Amazon River. Pinzón is considered the discoverer of the Oiapoque River.

In 1505, Pinzón was named Loser commander-in-chief and 'corregidor' of the city of Puerto Rico, now called San Juan. This was to be the first step in the colonization of the island called "Borinquén" by its inhabitants and "San Juan Bautista" by the Spanish (now called Puerto Rico). However, Pinzón did not fulfill this commission. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20070617215945/http://icarito.aconcagua1.copesa.cl/especiales/america/v_pinzon.htm Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1461-1514)] es - Wayback Machine archive retrieved September 13 2007] In 1508, he travelled with Juan Díaz de Solís to South America. No record exists of Pinzón after 1523.

On November 19, 2008, a monument in his memory was inaugurated in the Palos de la Frontera on the occasion of the fifth centenary of the discovery of Brazil and of the brotherhood with the city of the Cape of Saint Agostinho.

ee also

*List of explorers

References

Bibliography

*Izquierdo Labrado, Julio. (1987) "Palos de la Frontera en el Antiguo Régimen.(1380-1830 )". Huelva: Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana y Ayuntamiento de Palos de la Frontera
*Izquierdo Labrado, Julio. (2004) "Palermos ilustres". Huelva: Ayuntamiento de Palos de la Frontera ISBN 84-606-3612-7
*Manzano Manzano, Juan, and Ana Maria Manzano Fernandez-Heredia. (1988) "Los Pinzones y el Descubrimiento de América". 3 vol., Madrid: Ediciones de Cultura Hispanica. ISBN 8472324427 ISBN 9788472324428
*Ortega, Fray Ángel. (1999) "La Rábida. Historia documental y crítica." 4 vols. Sevilla.

External links

* [http://es.geocities.com/julioil/lauri.html Vicente Yáñez Pinzón. Los Viajes Andaluces.] es
* [http://www.palosfrontera.com Ayuntamiento de Palos de la Frontera] , es
* [http://www.canalsocial.net/GER/ficha_GER.asp?id=2767&cat=biografiasuelta "Hermanos Pinzón", Enciclopedia GER] es
*worldcat id|id=lccn-n88-77144

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NAME = Pinzón, Vicente Yanez
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Spanish navigator, explorer
DATE OF BIRTH = 1460
PLACE OF BIRTH = Spain
DATE OF DEATH = after 1523
PLACE OF DEATH = unknown