Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
Spanish explorer and writer (1532–1592) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532–1592) was a Spanish adventurer, author, historian, mathematician, and astronomer. His birthplace is not certain and may have been Pontevedra, in Galicia, where his paternal family originated, or Alcalá de Henares in Castile, where he later is known to have studied .[1] His father Bartolomé Sarmiento was born in Pontevedra and his mother María Gamboa was born in Bilbao, Basque Country.
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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sarmiento and the second or maternal family name is de Gamboa.