…the founding of León at a location…

…the founding of León at a location west of Lake Managua.

Córdoba soon builds defenses for the cities and fights against incursions by other conquistadors.

Hernando de Soto was born in Jerez de los Caballeros, in the current province of Badajoz, to parents who are hidalgos of modest means in Extremadura, a region of poverty and hardship from which many young people look for ways to seek their fortune elsewhere.

However, three towns—Badajoz, Barcarrota and Jerez de los Caballeros—claim to be his birthplace.

He had spent time as a child at each place, and he stipulated in his will that his body be interred at Jerez de los Caballeros, where other members of his family were interred.

The age of the Conquerors had come on the heels of the Spanish reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from Islamic forces.

Spain and Portugal were filled with young men seeking a chance for military fame after the Moors were defeated.

With discovery of new lands to the west (which they thought at the time to be East Asia), they were attracted to whispers of glory and wealth.

De Soto had sailed to the New World with the first Governor of Panama, Pedrarias Dávila, participatin in 1520 in Gaspar de Espinosa's expedition to Veragua, and in 1524, he takes part in the conquest of Nicaragua under Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba.

Here he will acquire an encomienda and a public office in León.