Birthdate: 1564 AD
Birthplace: Olmeda de las Fuentes, Spain
Died: May 22, 1622
Pedro Páez Jaramillo, S.J., a Spanish Jesuit missionary, made significant contributions to Ethiopian history and exploration. He was the first European to discover and describe the source of the Blue Nile in 1618. Páez is highly regarded as the most effective Catholic missionary in Ethiopia. His two-volume work, História da Etiópia (History of Ethiopia), is considered a valuable and accurate account of the contemporary Solomonic Empire up to his time, providing insights from local sources that were otherwise lost or unknown.
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