Pero de Alenquer

Pero de Alenquer
Pero de Alenquer
	19th-century imagined portrait of Pero de Alenquer
Born	Alenquer, Kingdom of Portugal
Occupation	Explorer

Pero de Alenquer was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer of the African coast.

Pero was born in Alenquer.

He accompanied Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488.[1] He was the pilot of Vasco da Gama's flagship on the latter's first voyage to India[2] and later wrote of it.

References

Kenneth Pletcher, ed. (21 December 2009). The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Explorations That Changed the Modern World. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 52. ISBN 978-1615300280. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
Velho, A. (1969). A journal of the first voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499. p. 148. ISBN 5872234643. Retrieved January 17, 2015.

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