Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

Spanish explorer, author, historian, astronomer, and scientist

1532 CE to 1592 CE

Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532–1592) is a Spanish explorer, author, historian, astronomer, and scientist.

His birthplace is not certain and may have been Pontevedra, in Galicia, where his paternal family originated or Alcalá de Henares in Castile, where he later is known to have studied .His father Bartolomé Sarmiento was born in Pontevedra and his mother María Gamboa was born in Bilbao, Basque Country.

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