Explorers

Explorers Club – New York City

Amerigo Vespucci

• The explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci was the first person to demonstrate that the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 was not the eastern region of Asia

Hernando Cortes

• Hernán Cortés, was a Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the King of Castile, in the early 16th century.

Francisco Pizzaro

• Francisco Pizarro González, was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Incan Empire and founder of Lima, the modern-day capital of Peru.