Vicente Yáñez Pinzón

Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (* before 1463; † 1514) was a Spanish navigator and explorer . In 1492, as captain of the Caravel Niña , he made the first trip to the new world with Christopher Columbus and his two brothers, Martín Alonso Pinzón and Francisco Martín Pinzón .

In 1499 Pinzón sailed to the South American coast. On January 26th, 1500 he reached the coast of what is now Brazil , where he went ashore in what is now Pernambuco . Because of the Treaty of Tordesillas , Spain had no claim to this area, but Pinzón baptized the square Cabo de Santa Maria de la Consolación ("Cape of St. Mary of Consolation"). He also discovered an estuary of the Amazon and probably also the Oiapoque river .

In 1505 Pinzón was appointed governor of Puerto Rico .

To mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil, a monument was erected in his honor on November 19, 1999 in Palos de la Frontera .

literature

• Juan Manzano Manzano, Ana María Manzano Fernández-Heredia: Los Pinzones y el descubrimiento de América. Madrid 1988.