Juan Ponce de Leon Small 263×320 Medium 526×640 Large 841×1024 Download Tiff Original 1971×2400 | (6.6 MB) Description Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish conquistador. He accompanied Christopher Columbus on the latter's second voyage to the New World. Keywords Conquistador, explorer, Florida, Fountain of Youth, governor, portrait, Puerto Rico Galleries Famous People: P, Florida Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 7) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)
