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Balboa

noun

The basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos.

Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519). Synonym: Vasco Nunez de Balboa.

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"Balboa" Quotes from Famous Books

... of adventure will find rich reward in tracing the discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto, of Florida by Ponce de Leon, and of the whole course of {438} the Amazon by Orellana who sailed down it from Peru, or in reading of Balboa, "when with eagle eyes he stared at the Pacific." A resolute man could hardly set out exploring without stumbling upon some mighty river, some vast continent, or some unmeasured ocean. But among all these fairly-tales [Transcriber's note: fairy-tales?] ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... Balboa immediately concluded it to be the ocean for which Columbus had searched in vain; and when, at length, after a toilsome march among the mountains, his guides pointed out to him the summit from which it might be seen, he commanded his men to halt, ...

— Poems • Samuel Rogers

Words linked to "Balboa" : centesimo, Panamanian monetary unit, navigator, Vasco Nunez de Balboa