Alonso Sánchez

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Alonso Sánchez de Huelva was an alleged 15th-century mariner and merchant born in Huelva, Spain, on Andalusia's Atlantic coast. Legend has it that he reached America several years before Christopher Columbus did..

After the European discovery of America, several rumors started to spread, especially among the conquistadores, claiming that America had not been discovered by Columbus, but that its existence was known at least 20 years before 1492. Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566) had indeed heard several of those claims, but limited himself to record them in the 1540s, in ''Historia de las Indias'', which was not published until after his death. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616) was the first to name, in 1609, one of these mysterious alleged first European discoverers of America: ''Alonso Sánchez de Huelva''. Provided by Wikipedia