Juan Vespucio (c. 1460after 1524) was an Italian-Spanish geographer, cartographer and cosmographer. He was born in

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in around 1460. With his uncle Amerigo Vespucci, he moved to

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in Spain, where he was employed as a cartographer and cosmographer. In 1524, he was called upon as an expert to attend a board meeting between representatives of Spain and Portugal at the Old Town Hall in

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to clarify the status of their territorial arrangements, attended by the likes of Hernando Colón, Sebastián Caboto,

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and

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