For 10 points, name this first European conquistador to cross the isthmus of Panama and reach the Pacific.
This man threw forty members of the nobility to be eaten by his dogs when he caught them practicing homosexuality. One opponent of this man was intercepted on his way to punishing him by a mob who pushed him out into the ocean; that's how this man became governor of Veragua. This man tried to be a pig farmer in Hispaniola, but ended up in a barrel with his dog when he needed to escape his creditors. This man never met his wife, who was the daughter of his enemy (*) Pedrarias, who later had him beheaded for treason. In a possible reference to the Incas, this man was told by Panquicao of a southern land so rich that people ate off plates of gold. This man went west of the Gulf of Úraba and founded Darién, the first stable Spanish settlement in South America. For 10 points, name this first European conquistador to cross the isthmus of Panama and reach the Pacific.
This man threw forty members of the nobility to be eaten by his dogs when he caught them practicing homosexuality.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa