Florida's a pretty great state, what do you think of it?
So Florida means "Land of Flowers" in Spanish
I did not know that. There is a lot of Spanish influence in the state.
There is.  Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon explored the land in the 1500s.
I heard he was a highly influential figure in the shaping of America
He was.  In fact he was helped set up the first Spanish colony in the United States
He was one of the conquistadores, no?
Spanish conquest of Yucatán
The Spanish conquest of Yucatán was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish "conquistadores" against the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities in the Yucatán Peninsula, a vast limestone plain covering south-eastern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and all of Belize. The Spanish conquest of the Yucatán Peninsula was hindered by its politically fragmented state. The Spanish engaged in a strategy of concentrating native populations in newly founded colonial towns. Native resistance to the new nucleated settlements took the form of the flight into inaccessible regions such as
Leon County, Florida
Leon County is a county located in the Panhandle of the U.S. state of Florida. It was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León. As of 2017 Census estimates, the population was 290,292.
The county seat is Tallahassee. This is also designated as the state capital and is a center of politicians, lobbyists, jurists, and attorneys.
Leon County is included in the Tallahassee metropolitan area. Tallahassee is home to two of Florida's major public universities, Florida State University and