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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. He was born in Alenquer and accompanied Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 and 1488. Alenquer was the pilot of Vasco da Gama's flagship on the latter's first voyage to India.

References

1. Domingues, Francisco Contente. "Alenquer, Pero de". Instituto Camões (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
2. 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.
3. 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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