Diego de Almagro

Diego de Almagro, (c. 1475 – July 8, 1538), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo (The Elder), was a Spanish conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro. He participated in the Spanish conquest of Peru and is credited as the first European discoverer of Chile.Almagro lost his left eye battling with coastal natives in the New World. In 1525 he joined the Pizarro brothers and Hernándo de Luque at Panama for the conquest of Peru.

Personal facts

Diego de Almagro
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1475
Birth place
Almagro Ciudad Real , Crown of Castile
Nationality
Spain
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1538
Place of death
Spanish Empire , Cusco , Governorate of New Castile
Known for
Peru
Discovery of Chile

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External resources

  1. http://alipso.com/monografias/almagro
  2. http://www.carloskeller.cl/Bibliografia/LaconsolidaciondeldominioespañolenChile.htm
  3. http://www.carloskeller.cl/Bibliografia/MichimaloncoPedrodeValdivia.htm
  4. http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r27020/id27.htm
  5. http://www.historia.uchile.cl
  6. http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0012617.pdf
  7. http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0012618.pdf
  8. http://www.puc.cl/sw_educ/historia/conquista/parte3/html/h51.html