There were two Spanishconquistadores named Francisco Hernández de Córdoba. One of them discovered the peninsula of Yucatán (though he died thinking that it was an island). The other founded Nicaragua. They were contemporaries, and neither has a known date of birth. The Kingdom of Spain or Spain (Spanish and Galician: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne dEspanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. ... Conquistador (meaning Conqueror in the Spanish language) is the term used to refer to the soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under Spanish rule between the 15th and 17th centuries. ... The Yucatán Peninsula separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico. ... Nicaragua is a republic in Central America. ...
In some sources they are differentiated using the name "Hernández" for one and "Fernández" for the other. This only adds more confusion, because in the XVI century, in Spain, Hernández and Fernández were the same thing, as it happens with Hernando, Fernando, Hernán, Fernán, etc.
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