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Hernando Desoto

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Explorer
Died
May 21, 1542
Zodiac
Libra
Born in
Spain
About
16th-century Spanish conquistador who was the first documented person to cross the Mississippi River while searching for gold and silver. He became the first European to make contact with Atahualpa, the Incan emperor. 
Family
His parents were hidalgos, a form of non-titled nobility. He married Isabel de Bobadilla in 1537.

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