The Spanish conqueror and explorer Juan Ponce de León (1460-1521) conquered the island of Puerto Rico and explored the coastline of Florida, which he claimed for the Spanish crown. Juan Ponce de León was born in San Servas. Although of...

Juan Ponce de León Born 1460, Tierra de Campos Palencia, Spain Died July 1521, Havana, Cuba Juan Ponce de León was born in the village of Tierra de Campos Palencia in Spain. As a boy he was a page in the royal court of Aragon; later he...

1460-1521 Spanish Explorer and Soldier Juan Ponce de León was one of the leading early Spanish explorers and colonizers of the Western Hemisphere. He is best remembered for his discovery of Florida and for conquering and settling Puerto Rico....

Unknown to the indigenous people of the New World, their destiny was being determined by political and economic forces taking place across the Atlantic Ocean in Europe. Toward the end of the fifteenth century, thousands of daring adventurers would be...

Juan Ponce de León (c. 1460 – July 1521[1]) was a Spanish conquistador. He was born in Santervás de Campos (Valladolid). As a young man he joined the war to conquer Granada, the last Moorish state on the Iberian peninsula. Ponce de León...