Pinzón, MartínAlonso

Pinzón, MartínAlonso
Pin·zón (pĭn-zōnʹ, pēn-thōnʹ), Martín Alonso. 1440?-1493.
Spanish navigator who commanded the Pinta on Christopher Columbus's first voyage to America (1492-1493). His brother Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1460?-1524) was the first European explorer of the Amazon River (1500).

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