Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador)
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This article is about the first European to discover the Yucatán Peninsula. For the founder of Nicaragua, see Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua).
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko eɾˈnandeθ ðe ˈkoɾðoβa]; c. 1467 in Córdoba – 1517 in Sancti Spíritus) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.
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