Pinzón, Martín Alonso; and Pinzón, Vicente Yáñez

Pinzón, Martín Alonso; and Pinzón, Vicente Yáñez

▪ Spanish explorer
Respectively,
 
born c. 1441, Palos de Moguer, Sevilla [Spain]
died 1493, Palos de Moguer
born c. 1460?, Palos de Moguer
died c. 1523

      brothers from a family of Spanish shipowners and navigators who took part in Christopher Columbus (Columbus, Christopher)'s first voyage to America.

      Martín, part owner of the Pinta and Niña, helped prepare them, procured crews for the expedition of 1492, and commanded the Pinta, on which his brother Francisco was pilot. His suggestion to change course on October 7 brought the fleet to a landfall in the Bahamas (Bahamas, The) on October 12. Near Cuba, however, he left the fleet, to search for the land of gold and spices. He rejoined Columbus a few months later but, returning to Spain, became separated from the main fleet and died only a few weeks after his arrival.

      Vicente commanded the Niña in 1492–93 and remained with Columbus throughout the expedition. A successful and capable explorer in his own right, he sailed in late 1499 and landed on the Brazilian coast at a cape he named Santa María de la Consolación. From there, sailing northwest, he reached and explored the Amazon River estuary before continuing to the Gulf of Paria (northeastern Venezuela). He made two additional voyages to the New World before 1508. In that year, having been commissioned to discover a passage to the Spice Islands, he sailed with Juan Díaz de Solís (Díaz de Solís, Juan) and may have seen the coasts of what are now Honduras and the Yucatán (Mexico).

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