Orellana continues a further twelve hundred kilometers…
August 1542 CE
Orellana continues a further twelve hundred kilometers to the mouth of the Amazon, which he reaches on August 24, 1542, demonstrating the practical navigability of the Great River.
Having completed what is surely one of the most improbably successful voyages in known history, Orellana and his party sail along the Atlantic coast until reaching Cubagua Island, near the coast of Venezuela.