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pinzón, martín alonso

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Pin·zón   (pĭn-zōn', pēn-thōn')   
Spanish navigator who commanded the Pinta on Christopher Columbus's first voyage to America (1492-1493). His brother Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1460?-1524?) was the first European explorer of the Amazon River (1500).
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