Rodrigo de Triana

Rodrigo de Triana, actually Juan Rodríguez Bermejo (* 1469 in Seville), was a Spanish sailor. He was one of the Jews who had hired Columbus, to save them from the Inquisition, which came into force on the afternoon of his departure in Castile.

Rodrigo de Triana in 1492 went as a sailor on the first voyage of Christopher Columbus commanded by Martín Alonso Pinzón on the Pinta. According to conducted by Christopher Columbus log De Triana was the first participants of the first seafaring, the country discovered: an island in the Bahamas today (see Discovery of America 1492). The sight of land was, therefore, on the night of 11th to October 12th, 1492 by 2 clock.

" After sunset I returned to West direction. We came with a Seegeschwindigkeit 12 nautical miles forward and up to 2 clock in the morning we had run through 90 miles. As the caravel " Pinta " was faster than the other two ships and I had driven up, so it was discovered aboard the " Pinta " first in the country and was also the arranged signals. As a first spied this country a sailor Rodrigo de Triana was called "

De Triana's viewing is controversial: the Pinta, he sailed on was still 205 km away from the island at this time. Taking into account the curvature of the earth, the sailor can not have seen the country.

1507 Rodríguez Bermejo was captain in 1525 and traveled with García Jofre de Loaisa to the Moluccas.

Since 1898, a street named after him in Triana, and in the street Pages del Corro in Sevilla is since 1973 a monument showing the explorer, as he standing pointing with his outstretched left arm on the land on the mast.