Juan Ponce de León
(1474-1521)
Spanish explorer and conquistador
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Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521), commonly known as Ponce de León (, , ), was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and the first governor of Puerto Rico. He was born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain in 1474. Though little is known about his family, he was of noble birth and served in the Spanish military from a young age. He first came to the Americas as a "gentleman volunteer" with Christopher Columbus's second expedition in 1493.
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1474 Santervas de Campos, Spain
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1 July 1521 (aged 47) Havana, Cuba
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