He landed somewhere along Florida's east coast, then charted the Atlantic coast down to the Florida Keys and north along the Gulf coast historian John Reed Swanton believed that he sailed perhaps as far as Apalachee Bay on Florida's western coast. In 1513, Ponce de León led the first known European expedition to La Florida, which he named during his first voyage to the area. Ponce de León decided to follow the advice of the sympathetic King Ferdinand and explore more of the Caribbean Sea. After a long court battle, Columbus replaced Ponce de León as governor in 1511. While Ponce de León grew quite wealthy from his plantations and mines, he faced an ongoing legal conflict with Diego Colón, the late Christopher Columbus's son, over the right to govern Puerto Rico. He was authorized to explore the neighboring island of Puerto Rico in 1508 and to take office as the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown in 1509.
He first came to the Americas as a "gentleman volunteer" with Christopher Columbus's second expedition in 1493.īy the early 1500s, Ponce de León was a top military official in the colonial government of Hispaniola, where he helped crush a rebellion of the native Taíno people. Though little is known about his family, he was of noble birth and served in the Spanish military from a young age.
He was born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain in 1474.
Juan Ponce de León ( / ˌ p ɒ n s d ə ˈ l iː ə n/, also UK: / ˌ p ɒ n s eɪ d ə l eɪ ˈ ɒ n/, US: / ˌ p ɒ n s d ə l i ˈ oʊ n, ˌ p ɒ n s( ə) d eɪ -/, Spanish: 1474 – July 1521 ) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and for serving as the first governor of Puerto Rico.
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