Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish explorer
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Place of Birth: Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
About Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
- Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532–1592) was a Spanish explorer, author, historian, mathematician, 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 BartolomĂ© Sarmiento was born in Pontevedra and his mother MarĂa Gamboa was born in Bilbao, Basque Country.
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