Sebastián de Belalcázar

✶January 1, 1480

†May 10, 1551

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About their life

Sebastián Moyano y Cabrera, best known as Sebastián de Belalcázar was a Spanish conquistador. Belalcázar, also written as Benalcázar. He is known as the founder of important early virreinal cities in the northwestern part of South America; Quito in 1534 and Cali, Pasto, and Popayán in 1537. Belalcázar led expeditions in present-day Ecuador and Colombia and died of natural causes after being sentenced to death in the port of Cartagena de Indias in 1551.

Spanish conquistador

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Biography from the article Sebastián de Belalcázar on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.