Juan Ponce de Leon

Juan Ponce de Leon y Figueroa (c. 1474 - July 1521), or more commonly known as Ponce de Leon to the Zootopians, was a Spanish conquistador and explorer known for being the first governor of Puerto Rico by the appointment of the Spanish crown in 1511. Ponce de Leon is also known for leading the first expedition and it's eventual discovery of "La Florida" in 1513, La Florida is what was Florida during the Human era before they became extinct.

The Controversy about Ponce de Leon

Like most European explorers during the age of discovering, Ponce de Leon was involved and partaken part in many crimes against the native peoples of the Caribbean like such as slavery and genocide, one Ponce de Leon's most deplorable act's was during the Jaragua Massacre in July of 1503 where he executed 80 natives either by being burned alive or being hanged which made Ponce de Leon one of the most notorious mass murderers during his time.

Ponce de Leon in Pop Culture

Ponce de Leon is more well known in pop culture for trying to find the Fountain of Youth but he was unsuccessful in doing so, Ponce de Leon died while sailing to Cuba after he was shot by a natives poison arrow where was mortality wounded. He was buried in Puerto Rico in the crypt of the San Jose Church, then between 1559 and 1836 his remains were exhumed and transferred to the San Juan Bautista in the northern part of Puerto Rico, but however it could be possible that he was buried somewhere else.

Zootopia 2020's Zoo Era

500,000 years after the Humans extinction. In the early hours of the morning in 2022 ZE, a young Impala named Karl Taylor was metal detecting on Sahara Square's southern beach where he metal detector picked something where he was standing so he started digging and soon he's shovel hit something and to his great surprise it's a silver coffin with a strange of coat of arms that Karl did not recognised, Karl with all his Antelope strength pulled out the coffin and using a crowbar open the silver coffin, Karl was shocked to discover a skeleton of a strange creature surrounded by thousands golden coins, small silver bars and also Karl found a picture of what the creature would had look like, but also there was a name writing below the picture which says "Juan Ponce de Leon y Figueroa". Karl was amazed at what he discovered so the first thing Karl did was he drag the coffin to his pick up truck before sun rise then Karl drove to the Zootopia Nature History Museum where he worked where he and his colleagues would see if the skeleton of Ponce de Leon and the gold coins and silver bars were real, Karl and the others were shocked and surprised to find out that it was all real and that Ponce de Leon is a part of the same species of Mammal as Sir Francis Drake and Sir Henry Morgan who's both excellent were recently discovered. de Leon was put on display in the Museums main hall and as for the gold coins and silver bars, they were put in the vault of Zootopia's national bank and as for de Leon's picture, it was put on display at City Hall near the Mayors Office, right next to Drake's and Morgan's pictures.

de Leon's Map

While the museum workers were analyzing de Leon's skeleton they noticed that de Leon was cluching a large roll of paper in his right hand, they carefully pulled the roll paper from de Leon's hand and pulled it on the table and took a closer look at it, as it turns out it's a old map of a group of Islands with four names on it, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Jamacia and with all of these Islands names together it's known as The Caribbean and also the map shows the name of a large long stretch of land called La Florida, the museum workers were amazed at what they discovered which leaves them to speculate that Ponce de Leon was a either a sailor or an explorer due to the map possible showing where de Leon discovered but also they think that Ponce de Leon sailed in these waters before Drake and Morgan.