Juan Ponce De Leon Juan Ponce De Leon was born in Tierra De Campos in Spain. He was a page in the court of Aggaron.He sailed with Christopher

Columbus in 1493 on hi second voyage to the new world. In 1504 he took part in a Native Americans in the Dominican Povince. As a reward of his role of suppressing an insurrection,
the governor of Hispania named him provincial governor of the eastern part of Hispania.If it wasn%u2019t for Juan ponce de leon we would not know Florida existed.He discovered
Flordia. He found it on April 2.He thought it was a island. But it was acutely was north America.He named it under the king of spain.After Juan Ponce De Leon returned to portorico, he got his supplies restored and sailed back to spain to report florda.In 1521 he was shot by an arrow and later died from wounds.