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16th-century Spanish explorers

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Hernando de Soto

Spanish explorer and conquistador

Juan Sebastián Elcano

Castillian Basque sailor, explorer, and circumnavigator with the Magellan Expedition

Juan Ponce de León

Spanish explorer and conquistador

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador

Francisco de Orellana

Spanish explorer and conquistador

Antonio Pigafetta

Venetian diplomat, historian, and explorer of the Pacific and Chile

Pedro de Alvarado

Spanish conquistador, explorer and condottiero

Miguel López de Legazpi

16th-century Spanish conquistador, navigator, and colonial governor

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Spanish explorer of the American southwest

Alonso de Ojeda

Spanish navigator and governor

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Spanish explorer of the New World

Bernal Díaz del Brawl

Spanish conquistador

Juan Díaz de Solís

16th Century navigator and explorer

Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira

Spanish explorer

Pedro de Mendoza

Spanish conquistador

Alonso de Ercilla

Spanish soldier and poet (1533-1594)

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

founder of Bogotá

Francisco Hernández de Cordoba

conquistador, explorer

Lope de Aguirre

Basque Spanish conquistador

Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

Spanish explorer

Ruy López de Villalobos

Spanish explorer (1500-1546)

Andrés de Urdaneta

Spanish Basque explorer

Spanish governor of the Indies and son of Christopher Columbus

João de Nóvoa

Galician explorer, Navigator and Politician

Rodrigo de Bastidas

Spanish conquistador

Pedro Arias Dávila

Royal Governor of Panama (c.1440-1531)

Pedro Cieza de León

Spanish conquistador

Juan Fernández

Spanish explorer

Álvaro de Saavedra

Spanish Conquistador

Juan de Salcedo

Spanish conquistador

Francisco de Montejo y León

Spanish conquistador

Domingo Martínez de Irala

Spanish conquistador

Spanish Conquistador, explorer, and colonial governor

Alonso Álvarez de Pineda

Spanish explorer and cartographer

García López de Cárdenas

Spanish explorer, the first European to see the Grand Canyon

Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón

Spanish explorer

Alonso de Salazar

Spanish explorer

Estevanico (–1539), Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first African and person to explore North America and one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition.

Gil González Dávila

Spanish colonial governor

Yñigo Ortiz de Retez

Spanish explorer

Spanish conquistador and explorer

Diego de Nicuesa

Spanish governor of Panama (1464-1511)

Cristóbal Vaca de Castro

Spanish explorer (1492-1566)

Spanish explorer

Juan de Cartagena

Spanish explorer

García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete

Royal Governor of Chile (1535-1609)

Nuño de Guzmán

Spanish conqueror

António de Saldanha

Portuguese explorer and diplomat

Juan Bautista Pastene

Genoese explorer

Juan Ladrillero

Spanish explorer

Vincente de Valverde

Spanish bishop and missionary

Francisco Xerez

Spanish explorer-historian (16th century)

Alonso de Arellano

Spanish explorer

García de Silva Figueroa

Spanish diplomat and traveller (1550-1624)

Francisco de Hoces

Spanish explorer

Portuguese pilot and captain and Spanish explorer

Spanish conquistador

Martín del Barco Centenera

Spanish explorer

Martín Fernández de Enciso

Spanish explorer

Spanish explorer