Juan Díaz de Solís

Juan Díaz de Solís (born with Lebrija (near to Seville) in 1470 - died in the zone of the Río of Plata in 1516), was a navigator and Spanish Explorateur .

Juan Díaz de Solís is resulting from a family of merchants, it starts by serving the Portugal and the Casa da India (the company of the Portuguese Indies).
Then, he becomes sailor for the king of Spain and carries out forwardings in the Yucatan in 1506 and with the Brésil in 1508 with Vicente Yáñez Pinzón. He becomes pilot of vessel in 1512 after the death of Amerigo Vespucci. Two years after having obtained this rank, it prepares a forwarding for the south of the new continent. Its three vessel X and its crew of 70 men start from Sanlucar de Barrameda the October 8th 1515. It passes the coasts of Brazil and arrives on the east coast of the Río of Plata, name that it gives him in February 1516 after having gone up it until the junction between the Río Uruguay and the Río Paraná with 2 officers and 7 hommes.
The group advances one can in the grounds to locate the places of a future colonization and is attacked by the local Indians (the historians think of the tribue Charrúas or that Guarani). The survivors tell whereas the other men were killed and that practiced Indians the Cannibalisme.
The second in command Francisco de Torres, taken in chage the ships, one of the three runs opposite the Brésil, and the two others arrive at Seville the September 4th 1516.

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