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Pêro de Alenquer
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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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