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	Juan Ponce de Leon Juan Ponce de León , c.1460-1521, Spanish explorer, first Westerner to reach Florida. He served against the Moors of Granada, and in 1493 he accompanied Columbus on his second voyage to America. From 1502 to 1504 he assisted in the conquest of Higuey (the eastern part of Hispaniola, now the... Read more
	San Juan (Puerto Rico) San Juan city (1990 pop. 437,745), capital, largest city, chief port, and commercial and cultural center of Puerto Rico, NE Puerto Rico. Coffee, tobacco, sugar, and fruit are exported from the busy port, mainly to the United States. San Juan's industries include tourism, brewing, distilling, and... Read more
	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. Officially known as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (a self-governing entity in association with the United States), it includes the offshore islands of Mona, Vieques, and... Read more
	Luis de Leon Luis Ponce de León , 1527?-1591, Spanish mystic and poet, an Augustinian monk. Fray Luis held various theological chairs at the Univ. of Salamanca. A noted Hebraist, he translated the Song of Songs and the Book of Job. His theological disputes with leading Dominicans and his translations... Read more
	Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle, also called the Devil's Triangle, is an imaginary area that can be roughly outlined on a map by connecting Miami, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the Bahamas, an island chain off the coast of the United States. Within that triangular area of the... Read more
	Ponce Ponce , city (1990 pop. 187,749), S Puerto Rico. One of Puerto Rico's largest cities, it is the island's chief Caribbean port. Ponce is also an agricultural trade and distribution center. Industries include tourism, the processing of agricultural products, rum distilling, canning, and diamond... Read more
	Juan Ruiz Juan Ruiz , 1283?-1350?, Spanish poet, musician, and archpriest of Hita. Ruiz suffered 13 years in prison, during which time he revised his masterpiece, El Libro de buen amor (c.1330, tr. The Book of Good Love, 1933). This is a miscellany in verse of fables; autobiographic adventures in the... Read more
	University of Puerto Rico University of Puerto Rico main campus at Río Piedras, near San Juan; land-grant and commonwealth; coeducational; founded 1903 as successor to a normal school. The Río Piedras campus has faculties of humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, business administration, law,... Read more
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	Juan Ponce de Leon and the Spanish Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History Juan Ponce de Leon and the Spanish Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida. By Robert H. Fuson. (Blacksburg, Va...Much remains unknown about the life of Juan ...
	Claiming Florida.(Juan Ponce de Leon's discovery of Florida, USA) Magazine article from: Cobblestone ...seemed to the Spanish that there also...find this land, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon led an expedition...northwest from Puerto Rico, where he had founded a Spanish settlement ...
	Brutal journey: more than four centuries ago, 400 Spanish soldiers landed... Magazine article from: Sarasota Magazine ...conquer "La Florida," as the Spanish called the...honor goes to Juan Ponce de Leon, the official...conquering Puerto Rico and came...in perfect Spanish. To Americans...Leon ...