Balboa, Vasco Núñez de Syllabification: (Bal·bo·a, Vasco Núñez de)Pronunciation: /balˈbōə/Definition of Balboa, Vasco Núñez de (1475–1519), Spanish explorer. In 1513 he reached the western coast of the isthmus of Darien (Panama), thereby becoming the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean. Balboa, Vasco Núñez de in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Balboa, Vasco Núñez de in the British & World English dictionary
