Example sentences for: zarco

How can you use “zarco” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • João Gonçalves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan’s historic circumnavigation of the globe.

  • During his stint as governor of the island, Zarco is believed to have lived a short distance up Calçada do Pico, in the Quinta das Cruzes.

  • The imposing Palácio do Governo Re­gio­nal, a handsome building with tiled patios and the administrative headquarters of Madeira, rises behind the Zarco monument to the right.

  • Zarco ruled the western half of Madeira, while his fellow Portuguese captain and navigator, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, governed over the eastern half from Machico.

  • Zarco happened upon a small volcanic archipelago 1,000 km from Lisbon.


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