Her father, Sebastián Rodríguez de Astudillo, was the founder of the Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico ( Puerto Rico Bar Association ) and her mother, Carmen Ponce de León, was a descendant of Juan Ponce de León.

He was born in the northern part of the Viceroyalty of the River Plate to a Spanish nobleman father, Diego de Alvear y Ponce de León, and a criollo mother, María Balbastro and baptised Carlos Antonio del Santo Ángel Guardián.

His father Sonnie Joe Chamberlain and mother Maria Victoria Ponce.

Vassallo and his brothers were born in Yauco and raised in the City of Ponce where their father, Salvador Vassallo Sr., opened a hardware store.

In 1924, her father died and her mother moved to Ponce.

A referral through his father to Henry Morrison Flagler resulted in the commission for the Ponce de Leon and later Alcazar hotels in St. Augustine, Florida.

In 2011, the municipality of Ponce, where Navarro grew up, was educated, developed his baseball skills, and played and managed baseball for 40 years named a sports complex after him.

It is managed by the Ponce municipal government.

The following decade started with a big development for the bank, when in 1990 it merged with Banco de Ponce, one the largest banks in Puerto Rico.

An immediate dispute broke out between the House of Medina Sidonia ( the Guzmán family ) and the House of Arcos ( the Ponce de León family ) about the possession of the town.

* United States Customs House ( Ponce, Puerto Rico )

Federico Degetau y González, born in Ponce was a Puerto Rican politician, lawyer, writer, author, and the first Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States House of Representatives.

In 1991, Speaker Ramon Mitra and House Representative David Ponce De Leon introduced a house bill for the creation of the Municipality of Culion.

Ponce d ' Escouperie, a son of a tradesman, left 1565 for Sweden and took the name Pontus De la Gardie when registered by the House of Knights.

The current Senate President is Juan Ponce Enrile, while the current Speaker of the House of Representatives is Feliciano Belmonte, Jr.

1985 Puerto Rico floods | The Mameyes Landslide, in the Mameyes neighborhood of barrio Portugués Urbano in Ponce, Puerto Rico, which buried more than 100 homes, was caused by extensive accumulation of rains and, according to some sources, lightning.

Expeditions which led to Ponce de León's colonization of Puerto Rico, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar's colonization of Cuba, Hernando Cortes ' conquest of Mexico, and Vasco Núñez de Balboa's sighting of the Pacific Ocean were all launched from Santo Domingo.

The Caribs produced the silver which Ponce de Leon found in Taíno communities.

East Volusia-also known as the Greater Daytona Beach Area, or the Halifax Area ( named for the Halifax River which runs through the area ), this region includes the cities of Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach Shores, Holly Hill, Ormond Beach, Ponce Inlet, Port Orange, and South Daytona ; and the surrounding unincorporated areas close to these cities.

The region of what is now Ponce belonged to the Taíno Guaynia region, which stretched along the southern coast of Puerto Rico.

Ponce had the best road in Puerto Rico, running from Ponce to San Juan, which had been built by the Spaniards for military purposes.

The complete history of Ponce can be appreciated at the Museo de la Historia de Ponce, which opened in the city in 1992.

Lakes in Ponce include Bronce and Ponceña as well as lakes bearing numbers: Uno, Dos, Tres, and Cinco ; and the Salinas Lagoon, which is considered a restricted lagoon.

Several marinas are located in Ponce Inlet, which is considered one of the area's prime fishing spots.

Ponce Inlet is organized with a council-manager form of government ; voters elect a Town Council, which consists of five members who serve two-year staggered terms.

The commercial district in Scottdale is focused on East Ponce de Leon Avenue, which bisects the community from the southwest to the northeast.

The connection was made in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Historia General y Natural de las Indias of 1535, in which he wrote that Ponce de León was looking for the waters of Bimini to regain youthfulness.

Carl O. Sauer described Ponce de León's 1513 expedition in which he " discovered " Florida as simply " an extension of slave hunting beyond the empty islands.

After some presentations, Nazario started alongside singer and photographer José Manuel, and Frankie Sabath, in a band which Tony Morales created, called The Kids From Ponce.

It wasn't until 1967 that the team could reach to the Finals against the Ponce team, on which the Vaqueros won the series and their Third Championship ( first within 34 years ).

As the agricultural and sugar industries, which became the mainstays of the colony's economy, grew, the province would eventually subdivide into several distinct municipalities and the administrative center of the region would later shift west to the coastal town of Ponce.

Carlos Ponce Sanginés, for his part, focus his researches in the anthropomorphic figures with phallic elements and prominent humps which, in his opinion, go back to the Inca civilization and, according to his observations, they would correspond to the predecessors of the colonial Ekeko.

Public bus service which connects you to Ponce city ( east ) and Guayanilla ( west ).

The school is located on, the centerpiece of which is the Ponce de Leon Hall, built in 1888 as a luxury hotel.

Most classes are taught in Kenan Hall, which is adjacent to Ponce de Leon Hall.

The Nationalist movement was intensified by the Ponce Massacre and the Rio Piedras Massacre, which showed the violence which the United States was prepared to use, in order to maintain its colonial regime in Puerto Rico.

In his birthplace city of Ponce, there is a Pedro Albizu Campos park dedicated to his memory, which includes a full-body statue of the Nationalist leader.

Ceron ordered Miguel de Toro, a lieutenant of Juan Ponce de León, to create a " Christian Village " in western Borinquen, calling it San German.

Degetau was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where he also attended the common schools and the Central College of Ponce.

The people of the municipality of Ponce named the larger of the two squares the city's central plaza, Plaza Degetau, in his honor.

Degetau is also honored at Ponce's Park of Illustrious Ponce Citizens.

A few yards from Parque de Bombas, on Plaza Federico Degetau, sits an obelisk to their memory, and at the Cementerio Civil de Ponce ( Ponce Civil Cemetery ) a mausoleum was erected in 1911 to their memory where all seven heroes were eventually interred.