胡安·庞塞·德莱昂

胡安·庞塞·德·莱昂（，，生于西班牙巴利亚多利德，死于古巴哈瓦那），文艺复兴时期西班牙探险家，他参加了对伊斯帕尼奥拉岛的征服，后成为博里基恩（今波多黎各）的总督。

参与过征服格拉纳达、同克里斯托弗·哥伦布第二次前往新大陆、他于1513年在佛罗里达附近海岸登陆，命名该地为圣奥古斯丁（今地址待考）。

文学
传闻他在美洲期间出境发现过青春之泉（Fountain of Youth），这一桥段被诸多游戏和电影引用，比如《世紀帝國3》和《神鬼奇航4》。

纪念
波多黎各首府圣胡安有一条主干道就以其名作为纪念。

延伸阅读

 Allen, John Logan (1997). A New World Disclosed. University of Nebraska Press.
 Arnade, Charles W. (1967). "Who Was Juan Ponce de León?" Tequesta, The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida. XXVII, 29–58.
 Davis, T. Frederick. (1935) "History of Juan Ponce de León's Voyages to Florida: Source Records." Florida Historical Society Quarterly. V14:1.
 Fuson, Robert H. (2000). Juan Ponce de León and the Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida. McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co.
 Kessell, John L. (2003). Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. University of Oklahoma Press.
 Lawson, Edward W. (1946). The Discovery of Florida and Its Discoverer Juan Ponce de León. Reprint, Kessenger Publishing.
 Marley, David. (2008). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere (2 Volumes). ABC-CLIO.
 Morison, Samuel Eliot (1974). The European Discovery of America, The Southern Voyages. Oxford University Press.
 Peck, Douglas T. (1993). Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida: The Man, the Myth, and the Truth  Pogo Press.
 
 
 Turner, Samuel P. (2012). "The Caribbean World of Juan Ponce de León and His Discovery of Florida" . Paper presented at the Culturally La Florida Conference, May 3–6, St. Augustine, Florida.
 Turner, Samuel (2013) "Juan Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida Reconsidered" Florida Historical Quarterly 92(1):1–31.
 Van Middeldyk, R. A. (1903). The History of Puerto Rico. D. Appleton and Co.
 Weddle, Robert S. (1985). Spanish Sea: the Gulf Of Mexico in North American Discovery, 1500–1685. Texas A&M University Press.

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