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Article: Pizarro Brothers
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PIZARRO BROTHERS
PIZARRO BROTHERS.
The Pizarro brothers, Francisco and his half brothers Gonzalo, Juan, and Hernando, were the conquerors of Inca Peru. Francisco (c. 1478
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1541), the illegitimate son of Captain Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisca Gonz
á
lez, was a native of Trujillo in southwestern Spain and received little formal education. In 1502 he sailed to the Caribbean with Nicol
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s de Ovando, the new governor of Hispaniola. Over the next two decades Pizarro helped explore andplunder Central America. He accompanied Vasco N
ú
ñ
ez de Balboa's expedition that crossed Panama in 1513 and discovered the South Sea (Pacific Ocean). The infamous Governor Pedrarias de
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