Venezuela. ‘little Venice’ The homes on stilts reminded him of the buildings in Venice.
The explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was the first person to demonstrate that the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 was not the eastern appendage of Asia, but rather a previously-unknown “fourth” continent. The continents of North and South America (and, by extension, the United States of America) derive their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.