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Sebastián de Belalcázar

Spanish conquistador

  • Fame54.7
  • Momentum3.5
  • Wikipedia6K
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Lived 1480–1551, aged 71Spain
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    1480–1551
    Aged 71
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Updated 2026-08-19

Sebastián Moyano y Cabrera, best known as Sebastián de Belalcázar was a Spanish conquistador. Belalcázar, also written as Benalcázar. He is known as the founder of important early virreinal cities in the northwestern part of South America; Quito in 1534 and Cali, Pasto, and Popayán in 1537. Belalcázar led expeditions in present-day Ecuador and Colombia and died of natural causes after being sentenced to death in the port of Cartagena de Indias in 1551.

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Momentum3.5
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