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Balboa, Vasco Nùñez de

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  1. A Spanish explorer of the sixteenth century who discovered the Pacific Ocean and claimed it for Spain.

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Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de, 28, 29, 42; discovery of the Pacific, 25; executed by Pedrarias, 29.

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