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In the Treaty of Tordesillas (June 1494) the definitive layout would be 370 leagues to the west of the Barcelona proposal. The Catholic Monarchs waited impatiently until June for the geographical report entrusted to Columbus on his second voyage. Antonio Torres brought this information on a boat and delivered it at Medina del Campo in April. Thus, they learned that the city of La Isabela was 750 leagues from the Canary Islands. They then decided on the distribution of the limits of influence across the Atlantic in such a way as to satisfy Portugal (which wanted the line further to the west, 370 leagues from the Azores and Cape Verde), saving their future territory with another 380 leagues, from the line to the island of Hispaniola. Nobody had expected there was a continent that extended to the east, in Brazil.<br>
The antemeridian would be decided after the clash between the Portuguese and the Spanish on the other side of the world. The Portuguese had built the fort of Ternate (1509) and the Spanish the fort of Tidore in the Moluccas. After a meeting of cosmographers in Badajoz-Elvas (1524), an essential agreement was reached in Saragossa for the Spanish, who by then knew how to get to Asia from America through the Pacific, but not how to return. They did not discover it until 1565, when Urdaneta managed to attain his way back, sailing north towards Acapulco.
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[[File:Enelaboracion.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The first voyage around the world. World. [XXX PDF]. [XXX Datos]. [XXX Interactivo].]]
Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer familiar with Southeast Asia, who fell into disgrace (1514) at the Lisbon court, went to Seville and proposed to an assenting Charles I, to start a spice route to the west, in the opossite direction to the ''carreira da India'' of the Portuguese, through Africa and the Indian Ocean. He undertook to find the passage to the ''Southern Sea'' of Balboa, reach the Moluccas and return the same way, always within the Spanish hemisphere of the Teatry of Tordesillas. In 1519, he set sail with 5 ships and 239 crew members, including Juan Sebastián Elcano and the Italian chronicler Antonio Pigafetta, author of the ''Diary'' that chronicled the expedition. Magellan discovered the strait that bears his name, crossed the ocean, to which he gave a new name, and arrived as far north as Cebu, where he died in a skirmish with the natives.<br>
Elcano then took command, went down to the Moluccas and filled the ''Victoria'', the only ship available at the time, with rich spices. He had the brilliant intuition of not going back by the same route (the currents capsized all the ships sailing to the east) and risking going back through the Indian Ocean and Africa, facing up to the Portuguese attacks, as indeed happened. In 1522, three years later, he arrived in Seville. With him were only 18 ragged and sick but immensely rich men, who had made the first circumnavigation of the world.<br>
It was not until 1565 (Urdaneta’s return) that the ''Kuroshio Current'' was found, a return route, far to the north up to Acapulco. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish travelled along the coast from Patagonia to Alaska, discovered the lands of the Pacific (Juan Fernández, Rapa Nui, Marianas, Caroline islands, Torres Strait), traded with China and Japan, occupied the Philippines and earned for the Pacific the name of the “Spanish lake”.
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