Pêro de Alenquer facts for kids
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Pêro de Alenquer
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19th-century imagined portrait of Pêro de Alenquer
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Alenquer, Kingdom of Portugal
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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.
See also
In Spanish: Pêro de Alenquer para niños
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