Discoverers Web: South America
Explorers of South America
For the earliest voyages, see North America
The conquistadores
- El Dorado
- The legend of El Dorado
- El Dorado
- Eldorado: The fabulous golden realm
- El Dorado
- Eldorado, The Mystical Place of Gold and Treasures
- Eldorado (in German)
- Francisco Pizarro
- Diego de Almagro
- Early Spanish Expeditions to Colombia (Quesada, Federmann, Belalcázar)
- Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada
- Sebastián de Benalcázar
- Gonzalo Pizarro
- Francisco de Orellana
- Domingo Martinez de Irala
- Walter Raleigh
Brazil
- The discovery of Brazil
- Colonization
- Europeans Along the South Atlantic (From: 1492: An Ongoing Voyage)
- Pedro Alvares Cabral: See The Portuguese Empire
- Francisco de Orellana
- Hans Staden
- Pedro de Teixeira
- The Jesuits in Paraguay
- António Rapôso Tavares
The first scientists
- Charles Marie de la Condamine
- Isabela Godin des Odonais
- Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Aimé Bonpland (in Spanish)
- Charles Waterton
- Robert FitzRoy and Charles Darwin
- Life and Times of
Charles Darwin
- The Charles Darwin page
- On Tierra del Fuego
- The Voyage of the Beagle: site 1, site 2
- Darwin's autobiography
- Alfred Russell Wallace
- alternative site
- third site
- Henry Walter Bates
- alternative site
Modern exploration
- Cândido Rondon (in Portuguese)
- alternative site
- Theodore Roosevelt
- alternative site
- Through the Brazilian Wilderness
- Percy Harrison Fawcett
- The Great Unknown
- Orlando and Cláudio Villas-Boas