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Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa

Former Governor of the Strait of the Mother of God
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa was a Spanish adventurer, author, historian, mathematician, and astronomer. His birthplace is not certain and may have been Pontevedra, in Galicia, where his paternal family originated, or Alcalá de Henares in Castile,... Wikipedia
Born: 1532, Galicia, Spain
Died: 1592 (age 60 years), Lisbon, Portugal
Previous office: Governor of the Strait of the Mother of God (1584–1590)
Nationality: Spanish
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