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Alonso de Ojeda
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Spanish navigator and governor
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Alonso de Ojeda was a Spanish explorer, conquistador, governor, and discoverer who served the Crown of Castile. Born in Torrejoncillo del Rey in 1466, he began his period of work in 1493. He died in Santo Domingo in 1515 and is buried in the Dominican National Pantheon.
His biography is documented in sources including Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Catholic Encyclopedia, and New International Encyclopedia. Juan Rodríguez Fonseca is listed as a significant person associated with him. While an author entry for Alonso de Ojeda Eiseley exists with one work titled *Indices de precios en España en el período 1913-1987*, and five works are counted under Crossref, these records may refer to different individuals or contain data inconsistencies.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Indices de precios en España en el período 1913-1987
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,405x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,186x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,967x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,286x
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Key facts
- Born
- c. 1466, Torrejoncillo del Rey , Castile
- Died
- c. 1515, Santo Domingo , Spanish West Indies
- Occupation
- Explorer
- Known for
- Naming Venezuela, first European to visit Lake Maracaibo , founder of Santa Cruz, Venezuela (La Guairita)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Alonso de Ojeda ( Spanish pronunciation: [aˈlonso ðe oˈxeða]; c. 1466 – c. 1515) was a Spanish explorer, governor and conquistador. He is famous for having named Venezuela, which he explored during his first two expeditions, for having been the first European to visit Guyana, Curaçao, Colombia (La Guajira) and Lake Maracaibo, and later for founding Santa Cruz (La Guairita). He also travelled to Trinidad, Tobago and Aruba, in some of his travels he journeyed with Amerigo Vespucci and Juan de la Cosa.
Ojeda was part of the first wave of Spanish conquistadors in the Americas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alonso de Ojeda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.