Vasco Núñez de Balboa
He founded the settlement of Santa María la Antigua del Darién in present-day Colombia in 1510 , which was the first permanent European settlement on the mainland of the Americas ( a settlement by Alonso de Ojeda the previous year at San Sebastián de Urabá had already been abandoned ) . 
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