Pinzón–Solís voyage

The Pinzón–Solís voyage was a Spanish maritime expedition in 1508–1509 to the Bay of Honduras, and possibly to adjacent bodies of water, led by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón and Juan Díaz de Solís.

[1] As the years wore on, the lack of progress became so glaringly obvious that on 13 March 1505 and again on 23 August 1506, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón and Amerigo Vespucci were especially commissioned to redeem the frustrated record by discovery of such a passage.

[3][n 2] As a result of which, on 23 March 1508, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón and Juan Díaz de Solís were jointly commissioned via capitulación to forthwith undertake the named venture in those seas north of Veragua, with the former given command over military matters, and the latter over maritime ones.

[13][n 7] The armadilla then took a few months crossing the Atlantic, finally arriving in Seville, Spain on 29 August 1509, where they offloaded 'diverse objects of guanines ' to be melted into ingots, and 'various' native Indians whom they had impressed, enslaved, or abducted.

[18][n 14] Though the discovery of the Yucatán Peninsula is popularly credited to a 1517 expedition by Hernández de Córdoba, some scholars note the feat should properly be assigned to this Pinzón and Solís voyage.

First print map depicting coast discovered by the Pinzón–Solís voyage / 1514 map by Rodríguez de Fonseca & Martire d'Anghiere / via JCB