Columbia Encyclopedia: Cieza de León, Pedro
(pā'thrō thēā'thä dā lāōn') , 1518?–1560, Spanish soldier and explorer in South America. His Chronicle of Peru is one of the most richly detailed accounts of the Spanish conquest.

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See El Inca, abr. Eng. tr. (1959) by H. de Onís.

 
 
 

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