section_path: Pacific Ocean (1513–1529)/Subsequent developments to the east
section_name: Subsequent developments to the east
paragraph_text: Subsequent developments to the east
  
  From 1515 to 1516, the Spanish fleet led by Juan Díaz de Solís sailed down the east coast of South America as far as Río de la Plata, which Solís named shortly before he died, while trying to find a passage to the "South Sea".