Did Columbus know about the Straits of Magellan?

No. Ferdinand Magellan ("Fernão de Magalhães" as he was known in his native language of Portuguese) was the first to navigate them in 1520. Christopher Columbus died in 1506, so he can't have known about them, as Magellan discovered them and named them after himself.

Columbus also mainly explored the Caribbean islands, and never got as far south as Chile. Prior to 1492, Europe had no knowledge of the Americas. Previous exploits had been made by the Chinese and the Vikings centuries before, but no settlements were really made and the knowledge wasn't passed on to Europeans.So when Columbus landed in what is now the Bahamas and exploration of North and South America began in 1492, the Europeans had no prior knowledge of the continents.

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