Person
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistado
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (Palos de la Frontera, Spain, c. 1462 – after 1514) is a Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador, the youngest of the Pinzón brothers.
Along with his older brother, Martín Alonso Pinzón, who captains the Pinta, he sailed with Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World, in 1492, as captain of the Niña.