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Conquerors
Hernan Cortes 
Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador who explored Central America, overthrew Montezuma and his vast Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
Francisco de Orellano
Francisco de Orellana (1511–November 1546) was a Spanish conquistador, colonist, and explorer. He joined Gonzalo Pizarro's 1541 expedition that set out from Quito headed east, hoping to find the mythical city of El Dorado. Along the way, Orellana and Pizarro were separated.
Gonzalo Pizarro
Soldier and Spanish conquistador, born in Trujillo (Cáceres) in 1513 and died in Lima (current capital of the Peru), after losing at the battle of Jaquijaguana (Xaxahuana) against the viceroy Pedro de La Gasca. Natural son of Colonel Gonzalo Pizarro the long (all the Pizarros father) and her maid María Viedma, and brother of the Conqueror of Peru, Francisco Pizarro.
Panfilo Narvaes
Narváez entered military service as a youth and arrived in Jamaica as one of the island’s first settlers. Later he commanded a company of archers during Diego Velásquez’s campaign to conquer and pacify Cuba. He was rewarded for his services with public offices and extensive land grants on the island.
Pedro de Alvarado
Alvarado went to Santo Domingo in 1510 and in 1518 commanded one of Juan de Grijalba’s ships sent from Cuba to explore the Yucatán Peninsula. In February 1519 he accompanied the army, led from Cuba by Hernán Cortés, that was to conquer Mexico.
Lope De Aguirre
Nothing is known of Aguirre’s life prior to 1544, when he arrived in Peru and took part in the Spanish suppression of Indian rebellions and in the wars that continually broke out between the Spanish conquerors.
Diego de Almagro
Was a Spanish conquistador known for his exploits in western South America. He participated with Francisco Pizarro in the Spanish conquest of Peru. From Peru Almagro led an expedition that made him the second European to set foot in central Chile (after Gonzalo Calvo de Barrientos). Back in Peru a longstanding conflict with Pizarro over the control of the former Inca capital of Cuzco erupted into a civil war between the two bands of conquistadores.
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish explorer and conquistador Francisco Pizarro helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru, founded its capital city, Lima.
Gonzalo de Sandoval
Spanish conquistador born in 1497 in Medellín and died in December of 1527 in Palos de la Frontera. He/She participated in all major actions of the conquest of Mexico from 1519 to 1526: March to Tenochtitlan, resistance Pánfilo de Narváez, sad night and final siege of the capital. He/She later founded Medellín in 1521 and the port of Coatzacoalcos, or holy spirit in 1522.
Vasco Nunes de Balboa
The 16th-century Spanish conquistador and explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent at Darién, on the coast of the Isthmus of Panama. In 1513, while leading an expedition in search of gold, he sighted the Pacific Ocean.