History of South America

How was juan rodriguez cabrillo child hood like?

Little is known about the childhood of the Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. He may have lived in Seville for some period with his father. Later it seems he studied navigation at the Casa de Contratación with the support of a rich woman of Seville for three or four years and passed an examination to qualify as a "piloto", becoming a very skilled, licensed mariner before going out to meet his future in the 1530s to the Indies through an alliance with Hernán Cortés.