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San Salvador. He claimed he had reached Asia but he didn't. Amerigo Vespucci proved Columbus wrong be following the same route he did and found nothing like what he described.

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Columbus' first land fall on his first voyage was on the island now called San Salvador in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. The natives that Columbus met there called the island Guanahani.


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