where was he born?
Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain.
Juan Ponce de León
 He was born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain 
where does the gulf stream come closest to florida UNANSWERABLE when was this stream first discovered? 1512 and who discovered it? Juan Ponce de León who is te above mentioned person? Juan Ponce de León, commonly known as Ponce de León, was a Spanish explorer and "conquistador" known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and serving as the first governor of Puerto Rico.
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Juan Ponce de León [SEP] Introduction
Juan Ponce de León (; 1474 – July 1521), commonly known as Ponce de León (, , ), was a Spanish explorer and "conquistador" known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and serving as the first governor of Puerto Rico. He was born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain in 1474. Though little is known about his family, he was of noble birth and served in the Spanish military from a young age. He first came to the Americas as a "gentleman volunteer" with Christopher Columbus's second expedition in 1493. By the early 1500s, Ponce de León was a top military official in the colonial government of Hispaniola, where he helped crush a rebellion of the native Taíno people.