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Fernando de Magellanes set out on September 20, 1519, with a fleet made up of five ships and 250 men left the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, in southern Spain, towards the Atlantic.
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He made his first stopover and traveled to Tenerife
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I arrived at the port of Santa Ana Lucia, today Rio de Janeiro and I stayed there for 3 days.
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One of the ships, planned a mutiny against Magellan, they rejected that a foreigner will lead the mission, Magellan, managed to control the situation.
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He managed to find a way to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, today known as the Strait of Magellan.
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After 4 months crossing the ocean, he reached two uninhabited islets.
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He arrived in the Philippines and spent 6 months in the San Lorenzo Islands.
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Magellanes died in combat on the island of Mactan.
He was the discoverer of the strait named after him, as well as of numerous islands in the Pacific, among which the Philippines stand out
