Juan Ponce de León (born 1460?, Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, León [Spain]—died 1521, Havana, Cuba) Spanish explorer who founded the first European settlement on Puerto Rico and who is credited with being the first European to reach Florida (1513).
Dr. Samuel Ponce de León Rosales. Médico cirujano por la UNAM. Residencia en Medicina Interna y en Enfermedades Infecciosas (INCMNSZ). Maestría en Ciencias en Epidemiología Hospitalaria y Calidad de la Atención Médica por la Universidad de Virginia (EUA). Nivel III del SNI.
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Dr. Samuel Ponce De León Rosales Coordinador Del Programa Universitario de Investigación en Salud Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Médico cirujano por la Facultad de Medicina de la UNAM. Residencia en Medicina Interna y en Enfermedades Infecciosas (INCMNSZ).

Historian and marine archeologist Samuel Turner says that Ponce de León sighted the Florida coast on Easter Sunday of 1513, and that many historians have misinterpreted Herrera's text by claiming it was one of the Bahama Islands Ponce saw on that date.
As a child, “possibly between the ages of 8 and 10,” says Turner, “Ponce de Leon became the page of a Spanish knight.” At 18, Juan Ponce went to war, helping in “the historic capture of . 4 129 5 146 140 101 6 391 330

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