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The first European to encounter the Amazon was the Spanish explorer Vicente Yáñez Pinzón in 1500.

Pinzón sailed about 50 miles up the river, where it was still very wide. He named it "Río Santa María de la Mar Dulce" but could not colonize the area as the Treaty of Tordesillas granted that right to Portugal.

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