Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (about 1460, Palos of Frontera, Spain - after 1523) was a navigator, explorer and Spanish Conquistador. Born in a family from marine rich person, the Pinzón, one thinks that it took part between 1477 there 1479 in activities of piracy on the coasts of Catalogne and of Ibiza.

In 1488, with his/her older brother Martín Alonso Pinzón, they sail both on board a Norman ship, ordered by the Dieppois captain Jean Cousin. On the way towards the Africa then the archipelago of the the Azores, the ship is drossé by the storm towards the South America. They accost with the Brésil with the course San Rogue.
Vincent Pinzon will become the future one ordering of Niña and his/her brother Martin Pinzon that of Pinta, two of the three boats which sprang with the conquest of the New World four years later under the orders of some Christophe Colomb.

In 1499, it sails again towards America at the beginning of Palos of Frontera with four caravel S armed by the Pinzón family. In 1500, a storm brings Pinzón on the northern coast of current the Brésil. The January 26th 1500, discovers the the Amazon and goes up the river on approximately 50 meters. He baptizes the river " Río Santa María of Mar Dulce". He is thus the first explorer to see the Estuaire of the Amazon.

October 8th 1501, the king Ferdinand the Catholic named it knight for his discoveries with the Alhambra of Grenade.

In 1505, Pinzón was named Gouverneur Puerto Rico (the load itself was " general Captain and Corrégidor of the island of Saint-Jean-Baptist ").

In 1508, the king decided to organize a forwarding with an aim of finding the " road of Épices". One thought of finding a passage to height of the Honduras allowing to reach the islands of the spice S. Vicente Yáñez Pinzón travelled with Juan Díaz de Solís towards Honduras, traversing the coast and thus supplementing the discoveries of Colomb. The two men also explored for the first time the Péninsule of Yucatán. Not having succeeded in discovering maritime passage towards the west, they returned to Europe in August 1509.

November 19th 1999 one inaugurated a monument with the memory of Vicente Yáñez Pinzón in Palos of Frontera, at the time of the fifth centenary of discovered Brazil and twinning of the town of Palos of Frontera with that of Cabo de San Agostinho.

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