Almagro lost his left eye battling with coastal natives in the New World.

When Almagro turned four, he was left under the tutelage of an uncle named Hernán Gutiérrez.

There are not many details of Almagro's activities during this period, but it is known that he accompanied various sailors that left the city of Darien between 1514 and 1515, although Almagro eventually returned and settled in Darien and obtained an encomienda which helped him construct a house and make a living from agriculture.

Almagro undertook his first conquest on November 1515, when he left Darien in command of 260 men and founded Villa del Acla, located in the place of the same name, but due to illness he had to leave behind this mission to the licenciate Gaspar de Espinosa.

Espinosa decided to undertake a new expedition, which left in December of the same year with 200 men including Almagro himself and Francisco Pizarro, who for the first time was designated as a captain.

After splitting the treasure of Inca emperor Atahualpa, both Pizarro and Almagro left towards Cuzco and took the city in 1533.

Once he left Moina, Almagro followed the Inca trail followed by 750 Spaniards deciding to join him in quest for the gold lost in the ransom of Atahualpa, which had mainly benefited the Pizarro brothers and their supporters.

As a result, Almagro left Cuzco in 1534 and was given the honor of Spanish King Charles I to explore the southern part of Peru ( modern-day Chile ) and look for more treasures there.

In the course of these events, Almagro left for Lima for a negotiation with Francisco on who would control Cuzco.

However, when Pizarro and de Almagro left Cuzco to explore the northern and southern parts of Peru, he left his younger brothers Gonzalo Pizarro, Juan Pizarro and Hernando Pizarro as garrisons in the city of Cuzco.

In that same year, the team was strengthened by the joining of some former players of San Lorenzo de Almagro, who had left that club due to its internal problems.

León Najnudel ( centre ) makes the symbolical jump ball | opening tip of the first game in the LNB's history, played at the Estadio Obras Sanitarias between San Lorenzo de Almagro ( left, Steve Standford ) and Argentino de Firmat ( right, Leonard Goggins ), April 26, 1985.

Although by this time Diego de Almagro had already acquired sufficient wealth in the conquest of Peru and was living a luxurious life in Cuzco, the prospect of conquering the lands further south was very attractive to him.

Given that the dispute with Pizarro over Cuzco had kept intensifying, Almagro spent a great deal of time and money equipping a company of 500 men for a new exploration south of Peru.

The crown had previously assigned Almagro the governorship of Cuzco, and as such Almagro was heading there when Charles V divided the territory between Nueva Castilla and Nueva Toledo.

This might have been the reason why Almagro did not immediately confront Pizarro for Cuzco, and promptly decided to embark on his new quest for the discovery of the riches of Chile.

Almagro quickly prepared his expedition with the help of men recruited from Cuzco and Lima within six months.

After the exhausting crossing of the Atacama desert mainly due to the climatic conditions, Almagro finally reached Cuzco, Peru, in 1537.

Upon his return to Peru in 1537, Almagro was bitter and eager to once and for all claim the riches of the city of Cuzco for himself.

Manco Inca never officially joined Almagro in his attack on Cuzco.

After occupying Cuzco, Almagro confronted an army sent by Francisco Pizarro to liberate his brothers.

Subsequent negotiations between Francisco Pizarro and Almagro concluded with the liberation of the third brother, Hernando Pizarro, in return for the definitive control and administration of Cuzco for Almagro himself.

Francisco Pizarro never had the intention of giving up Cuzco to Almagro, and only wanted to win time for himself to organize an army strong enough to defeat Almagro's troops.

Almagro fled to Cuzco, still in the hands of his loyal supporters, but found only temporary refuge as the forces of the Pizarro brothers entered the city without resistance.

* March – Diego de Almagro successfully charges Manco Inca's siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, the Pizarro brothers.

* April 26 – Battle of Las Salinas: Almagro is defeated by Francisco Pizarro, who then seizes Cuzco.

Upon his departure, Gonzalo and Juan were appointed by Francisco as garrisons of Cuzco without Almagro knowing it.

When Gonzalo and Hernándo noticed that Almagro also wanted to take control of Cuzco, they fought against him in the Battle of Las Salinas in April 1538.

* 1533 – Atahualpa is executed ; Almagro arrives ; Pizarro captures Cuzco and installs seventeen year old Manco Inca as new Inca emperor

* 1537 – Almagro seizes Cuzco from Hernando and Gonzalo Pizarro.

King Charles I of Spain ( Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ) had awarded the city of Cuzco to Pizarro, but Almagro attempted to claim the city nonetheless.

Almagro arrived in the New World on June 30, 1514, under the expedition that Ferdinand II of Aragon had sent under the guidance of Pedrarias Dávila.

After crossing the Bolivian mountain range and traveling past Lake Titicaca, Almagro arrived on the shores of the Desaguadero River and finally set up camp in Tupiza.

Dismayed, Almagro initiated his plans of return to Peru on September 1536.

Hoping to enlist the help of the Inca, Almagro offered Manco Inca a pardon on behalf of the Spanish government.

Almagro was condemned to death and decapitated while in confinement on July 8, 1538 ( other sources suggest he was garrotted, which would have been more likely for a Christian man of fame ).

In 1534 Sebastián de Belalcázar along with Diego de Almagro established the city of San Francisco de Quito on top of the ruins of the secondary Inca capital naming it in honor of Pizzaro.

There he took part on the side of Hernando Pizarro in his struggle against Diego de Almagro and fought in the battle of Las Salinas in 1538, which saw Almagro defeated and captured.

The resistance of the Indians became daily stronger, and as the ship that he had constructed in Aconcagua was also destroyed by the natives, Valdivia sent in 1542 overland to Peru his lieutenant Alonso de Monroy with five followers to seek reinforcements, but, on account of the disturbance in that country in consequence of the defeat of El Mozo Almagro by Cristóbal Vaca de Castro, Monroy could not obtain much aid, and returned in September 1543, with only seventy horsemen, also sending by sea a vessel with provisions and ammunition to the port of Aconcagua.

Almagro wrote two books collecting all data on the majority of cemeteries in the area.

Almagro was executed on 1538, under Hernándo Pizarro's orders.

Boca took second place to San Lorenzo de Almagro in the 2007 Clausura tournament, but went on to win the Copa Libertadores with a 5-0 overall rout of Brazilian Grêmio.

Almagro was executed on July 8, 1538, under Hernándo's orders.

Upon his return to Quito, Gonzalo learned that the Almagristas ( as the followers of Almagro were called ) had assassinated his brother Francisco Pizarro on June 26, 1541 in retaliation for Almagro's execution.

The Almagristas were finally defeated in the battle of Chupas on September 16, 1542, and their leader, Diego Almagro El Mozo, was executed.

Under his guidance, San San Lorenzo de Almagro was formally established on April 1, 1908 honoring Father Massa, the Battle of San Lorenzo, Saint Lawrence and, of course, the barrio.

The other teams taking part on the tournament were Club Atlético Atlanta, Club Atlético Huracán, Ferro Carril Oeste, Estudiantil Porteño and Sportivo Almagro.

Delighted at the luck of having established quarters in such a defensible position, and mindful that his battered vessel out on the shore would not carry him much farther, Pizarro elected to send a contingent of men under Lieutenant Montenegro back to Panama for repairs and supplies while his own troops manned the village ramparts and awaited the arrival of Diego de Almagro, whose own expeditionary force, following the path of Pizarro's, was bound to arrive shortly.

Attempting to take advantage of a disagreement between Diego de Almagro and Francisco Pizarro, he marched on the city of Cuzco in 1536 in an attempt to throw the Spaniards out.

* Felipe ( or Felipillo ), a native Peruvian who accompanied Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro on their various expeditions to Peru as an interpreter