Domingo Paes was a Portuguese traveller who visited the Vijayanagara Empire, located in the Deccan in southern India, around 1520 . He went there as part of a group of traders from the then colony of Goa.His visit took place during the rule of King Krishna Deva Raya and Paes recorded his impressions of Vijayanagara state in his Chronica dos reis de Bisnaga (Chronicle of the Vijayanagar kings).