Pero de Alenquer
19th-century imagined portrait of Pero de Alenquer
Born
Alenquer, Kingdom of Portugal
OccupationExplorer

Pero de Alenquer was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer of the African coast.[1] He was born in Alenquer and accompanied Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 and 1488.[2] Alenquer was the pilot of Vasco da Gama's flagship on the latter's first voyage to India.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Domingues, Francisco Contente. "Alenquer, Pero de". Instituto Camões (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Kenneth Pletcher, ed. (21 December 2009). The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Explorations That Changed the Modern World. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 52. ISBN 978-1615300280. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ Velho, A. (1969). A journal of the first voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499. p. 148. ISBN 5872234643. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
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