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3 unusual facts about Pedro Menéndez de Avilés


Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

Pedro Menendez High School on State Road 206 in Saint Johns County is named after him, as well as several streets in the area.

This experience assured him of the strategic importance of the Bahama Channel and the position of Havana as the key port to rendezvous the annual Flota of treasure galleons.

Pedro Menendez High School

It was named for Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, a sixteenth-century Spanish admiral and pirate hunter who founded St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement and oldest port city in what is now the continental United States, on August 28, 1565.



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