Which navigator is considered the discoverer of America?

The navigator who first reached America and opened the way to this continent for Europeans was Christopher Columbus. At the end of the 15th century, he made an attempt to cross the Atlantic and find a way to India, whose goods were highly valued in Europe. At this time, neither Columbus nor the rest of the Europeans knew that America was on the other end of the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus himself assumed that he had found India. About his delusion and that America is a separate part of the world, it became known several decades later.