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  • NAME: Hernando de Soto
  • OCCUPATION: Explorer
  • BIRTH DATE: c. 1496
  • DEATH DATE: May 21, 1542
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Louisiana
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Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who participated in the conquests of Central America and Peru and discovered the Mississippi River.


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Born c. 1496/97 in Jerez de los Caballeros, Badajoz, Spain, Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who participated in the conquests of Central America and Peru. Upon exploration of the American Southeast, on May 21, 1541, de Soto and his team saw for the first time the Mississippi River, where de Soto's body would be buried when he died of fever the following year.

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