But it isn’t just ubiquitous it also tells the story of Puerto Rico. It’s served in high-end restaurants and dive bars, at pop-up kiosks and roadside chinchorros (stalls), each with their own style and flavor. He then returned to Hispaniola and was named governor of Puerto Rico but was soon displaced from the governorship through the political maneuvering of rivals.You can find mofongo all over San Juan.

Hearing persistent reports of gold to be found on Puerto Rico, Ponce de León in 1508–09 explored and settled that island, founding the colony’s oldest settlement, Caparra, near what is now San Juan. As a reward for suppressing an Indian mutiny, Ponce de León was named by Ovando to be the provincial governor of the eastern part of Hispaniola. In 1502 he was in the West Indies as a captain serving under Nicolás de Ovando, governor of Hispaniola. It is possible that he began his career of exploration in 1493 as part of Christopher Columbus’s second expedition to the New World. Juan Ponce de León, (born 1460?, Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, León -died 1521, Havana, Cuba), Spanish explorer who founded the first European settlement on Puerto Rico and who is credited with being the first European to reach Florida (1513).īorn into a noble family, Ponce de León was a page in the royal court of Aragon and later fought in a campaign against the Moors in Granada. Highsmith Archive/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Miami, Florida: Juan Ponce de León statue Carol M. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.

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