João de Santarém
João de Santarém was a Portuguese explorer who discovered São Tomé, Annobón and Príncipe. Together with Pêro Escobar, he also encountered the town of Sassandra in the Ivory Coast in 1471 and in 1472 explored the African land from Ghana up to the Niger Delta. From 1484 he was captain of Alcatrazes in Cape Verde.
In January 1471, João de Santarém and Pêro de Escobar discovered "the traffic of gold at the place we now call Mina".
