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The first primary Spanish explorer was Ponce de Leon. There are stories that state he was looking for the fabled Fountain of Youth.
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Hernando de soto
One extremely important Spanish explorer and conquistador, named Hernando Cortes, explored a good part of modern day Mexico.
A Spanish explorer didn't name America. It was a German map maker who had read Amerigo Vespucci's account of his exploring "America" and named it after him. There is no proof that he was actually came to North America.
Juan Ponce de Leon, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, was the man who led the first European expedition to Florida. He called it La Florida because of its verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season.
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Columbus's navigator Amerigo Vespucci was for whom America was named.
One extremely important Spanish explorer and conquistador, named Hernando Cortes, explored a good part of modern day Mexico.
Colorado was discovered by a Spanish explorer named Francisco Vasquez De Coronado.
A Spanish explorer didn't name America. It was a German map maker who had read Amerigo Vespucci's account of his exploring "America" and named it after him. There is no proof that he was actually came to North America.
Itis named after an island a Spanish explorer read about
He was a Spanish conquistador who, while looking for something called the Fountain of Youth, discovered and named Florida.
The explorer Ponce De Leon named it-Spanish for feast of flowers.
he explored Florida and named it a name
Florida came from a spanish word.Florida was named by Spanish........
Ponce de Leon was the Spanish explorer who discovered Florida in 1513 and searched for the legendary fountain of youth. The Fountain of Youth was a spring that was believed to restore a person to their youth if they drank its water.
The peninsula was 'discovered' on Palm Sunday 1513 by the explorer Ponce de Leon and named, in Spanish, Pascua Florida. Literally Flowering Easter
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Florida was named for a term in Spanish which is Pascua Florida. Translated into English it means Flowery Easter and refers to the season of Easter. Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon and landed in what we now call Florida during Easter and gave the state it's name.