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Pêro De Alenquer

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Gender Male
Born Alenquer
Portugal
Job Sailor
Explorer
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Pêro De Alenquer Life story


Pêro de Alenquer was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer of the African coast. Pêro was born in Alenquer. He accompanied Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488. He was the pilot of Vasco da Gama's flagship on the latter's first voyage to India and later wrote of it.

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