Gonçalo Velho

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Gonçalo Velho Cabral, was a 15th century Portuguese explorer and settler of the Atlantic, one of the first discoverers of the Azores islands. He settled there, bringing families and cattle to the island of Santa Maria.

It was believed that he had been the discoverer of the first seven Azores islands, in 1432, until the Portuguese historian Damião Peres established the official date as 1427, after a reading of a Gabriel de Valsequa maritime chart of 1439, which names a certain Diogo de Silves as their discoverer.

 

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