胡安·龐塞·德雷昂（西班牙語：Juan Ponce de León，1474年4月8日—1521年7月[1]，生於西班牙瓦拉多利德，死於古巴哈瓦那），文藝復興時期西班牙探險家[2]，他參加了對伊斯帕尼奧拉島的征服，後成為博里基恩（今波多黎各）的總督[3]。
參與過征服格拉納達、同克里斯多福·哥倫布第二次前往新大陸、他於1513年在佛羅里達附近海岸登陸，命名該地為聖奧古斯丁（今地址待考）[4]。
文學
傳聞他在美洲期間出境發現過青春之泉（Fountain of Youth），這一橋段被諸多遊戲和電影引用，比如《世紀帝國3》和《神鬼奇航4》。
紀念
波多黎各首府聖胡安有一條主幹道胡安·龐塞·德雷昂大道（也稱25號高速）就以其名作為紀念。
延伸閱讀
- Allen, John Logan (1997). A New World Disclosed. University of Nebraska Press.
- Arnade, Charles W. (1967). "Who Was Juan Ponce de León?" Tequesta, The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida. XXVII, 29–58.
- Davis, T. Frederick. (1935) "History of Juan Ponce de León's Voyages to Florida: Source Records." Florida Historical Society Quarterly. V14:1.
- Fuson, Robert H. (2000). Juan Ponce de León and the Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida. McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co.
- Kessell, John L. (2003). Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. University of Oklahoma Press.
- Lawson, Edward W. (1946). The Discovery of Florida and Its Discoverer Juan Ponce de León. Reprint, Kessenger Publishing.
- Marley, David. (2008). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere (2 Volumes). ABC-CLIO.
- Morison, Samuel Eliot (1974). The European Discovery of America, The Southern Voyages. Oxford University Press.
- Peck, Douglas T. (1993). Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida: The Man, the Myth, and the Truth Pogo Press.
- Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Una Familia de la Alta Edad Media: Los Velas y su Realidad Histórica. Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos. Madrid: Asociación Española de Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos. 1985. ISBN 84-398-3591-4 （西班牙語）.
- Torres Sevilla-Quiñones de León, Margarita Cecilia. Linajes nobiliarios de León y Castilla: Siglos IX-XIII. Salamanca: Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de educación y cultura. 1999. ISBN 84-7846-781-5 （西班牙語）.
- Turner, Samuel P. (2012). "The Caribbean World of Juan Ponce de León and His Discovery of Florida" （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）. Paper presented at the Culturally La Florida Conference, May 3–6, St. Augustine, Florida.
- Turner, Samuel (2013) "Juan Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida Reconsidered" Florida Historical Quarterly 92(1):1–31.
- Van Middeldyk, R. A. (1903). The History of Puerto Rico. D. Appleton and Co.
- Weddle, Robert S. (1985). Spanish Sea: the Gulf Of Mexico in North American Discovery, 1500–1685. Texas A&M University Press.
Juan Ponce de León. 天主教百科全書. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
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