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Born c.1475 ‱ Trujillo ‱ Spain
Died June 26, 1541 ‱ Lima ‱ Peru
Founder Lima
Role In Battle of Cajamarca ‱ Battle of Cuzco

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Portrait of Francisco Pizarro painted by an anonymous artist, showing a bearded man in dark clothing with a white ruffled collar and a black cap, against a plain background.
Map of northern South America showing the routes of early European explorers in the 1500s. Color-coded lines trace the journeys of Francisco Pizarro, Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, Sebastian Benalcazar, Nikolaus Federmann, Gonzalo Pizarro, and Francisco de Orellana, with routes passing through present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and along the Amazon River to the Atlantic coast. Major cities such as Lima, Quito, Bogota, and Cuzco are labeled.
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