# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/afonso-goncalves-baldaia
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:08:06.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/afonso-goncalves-baldaia"
name: "Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia"
slug: "afonso-goncalves-baldaia"
description: "Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia  was a 15th-century Portuguese nautical explorer. He explored much of the coast of Western Sahara in 1435–1436 on behalf of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator. He would later become one of the first colonists of Terceira Island in the Azores."
tagline: "Portuguese explorer (14__-1481)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Afonso_Gon%C3%A7alves_Baldaia_-_Padr%C3%A3o_dos_Descobrimentos.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1415"
deathDate: "1481"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.652173913043478
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump