There were two Spanish conquistadores named Francisco Hernández de Córdoba. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. This article is about the Spanish explorer soldiers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuriesfor other uses see Conquistador (disambiguation A Conquistador One of them discovered the peninsula of Yucatán (though he died thinking that it was an island). Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located on the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. The other founded Nicaragua. Nicaragua (ˌnɪkəˈrɑgwə officially the Republic of Nicaragua () is a representative democratic republic and the largest nation in Central America They were contemporaries, and neither has a known date of birth.
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.
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (discoverer of Yucatán) (died 1517)
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua) (died 1526). There were two Spanish Conquistadores at the start of the 16th century named Francisco Hernández de Córdoba.
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