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Ponce de León reached Puerto Rico on 19 October 1513 after having been away for almost eight months. The other ship, after further explorations returned safely on 20 February 1514. [92] Although Ponce de León is widely credited with the discovery of Florida, he almost certainly was not the first European to reach the peninsula.
Pedro Ponce de León (1520-1584), Spanish Benedictine monk; Perla de Leon (born 1952), American artist and photographer; Rafael De Leon aka Roaring Lion (1908–1999), Trinidadian calypsonian; Ramiro de León Carpio (1942–2002), President of Guatemala 1993–1996; Rudy de Leon (born 1952), American Deputy Secretary of Defense
Carlos Ponce (born 1972), Puerto Rican actor, singer, and composer; Juan Ponce de Leon II (1524–1591), first Puerto Rican to assume governorship of Puerto Rico; Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon and founder of the city of Ponce in Puerto Rico
Juan Ponce de León II, 28th governor of Puerto Rico, grandson of the first governor, and the first born in the island to become governor.. In the governor's absence, or if the governor dies or is unable to perform the executive duties, the Secretary of State of Puerto Rico takes control of the executive position, as acting governor during a temporary absence or inability, and as governor in ...
The last titled nobleman to live in Cuba, Don Ignacio Ponce de León y Ponce de León, Marqués de Aguas Claras and Count de Casa Ponce de León y Maroto died in La Habana in 1973 leaving a remaining descendant. Coat of Arms of Ducado de la Unión de Cuba.
Pedro Ponce de León Dom Pedro Ponce de León teaching a pupil (Detail of a monument in Madrid, Spain.). Dom Pedro Ponce de Leon, O.S.B., (1520, Sahagún – 29 August 1584, Oña) was a Spanish Benedictine monk who is often credited as being "the first teacher for the deaf".
The Fountain of Youth is a mythical spring which supposedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters. Tales of such a fountain have been recounted around the world for thousands of years, appearing in the writings of Herodotus (5th century BC), in the Alexander Romance (3rd century AD), and in the stories of Prester John (early Crusades, 11th/12th centuries AD).
Juan Ponce de León II, the first native Puerto Rican governor of Puerto Rico, was the father of Juan Ponce de León y Loayza. In his trip from Spain to Puerto Rico in August 1577, Bishop Diego de Salamanca, not finding a commercial ship heading to Puerto Rico at the time, boarded a Spanish warship headed to Mexico, which dropped him off in the southern coast of Puerto Rico at Guanica.