# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pero-vaz-de-caminha
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:55:08.331Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pero-vaz-de-caminha"
name: "Pero Vaz de Caminha"
slug: "pero-vaz-de-caminha"
description: "Pero Vaz de Caminha was a Portuguese knight that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral to India in 1500 as a secretary to the royal factory. Caminha wrote the detailed official report of the April 1500 discovery of Brazil by Cabral's fleet. He died in a riot in Calicut, India, at the end of that year."
tagline: "Portuguese knight (c. 1450 – 1500)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Reading_of_the_letter_of_Caminha.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1437"
deathDate: "1500-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.41483733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "بييرو فاز دي كامينيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pero Vaz de Caminha"
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    title: "Pero Vaz de Caminha"
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    title: "Pero Vaz de Caminha"
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    title: "Pero Vaz de Caminha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pêro Vaz de Caminha"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump