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Francisco Pizarro, on his second expedition to Peru, arrived on the island from Gallo island, running away from the indigenous group that lived there. Pizarro and thirteen of his men remained on Gorgona for seven months, waiting for the arrival of provisions, preparing for a continuation of his efforts to conquer Peru. Pizarro, who considered the island an "inferno", gave it the name Gorgona after losing many of his men to bites from the great number of snakes that inhabit

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