Santervás de Campos facts for kids

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Santervás de Campos Location in Spain
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile and León
Province	Valladolid
Comarca	Tierra de Campos
Area
• Total	54.11 km2 (20.89 sq mi)
Population
• Total	KIDDLE_IB
Demonym(s)	Santervaseños
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Santervás de Campos is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. As of 2009^[update], the municipality has a population of 137 inhabitants and is known as the birthplace of Juan Ponce de León.

Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño, during a trade mission to Spain, presided over a ceremony there on January 21, 2011, commemorating the Quincentennial of the Governorship of Ponce de León, the United States territory's first Governor and discoverer of Florida and the continental United States, in which a statue of that municipality's famous explorer was unveiled.

Demographics

Notable natives and residents

Juan Ponce de León (Santervás de Campos, Valladolid). He was one of the first Europeans to arrive in what is today the United States; leading the first European expedition to Florida, which he named.

• Juan Ponce de León, Spanish explorer, one of the first explorers of Florida, and conqueror & first governor of Puerto Rico.
• Francisco de Villagra (1511 - 1563): conquistador and three-time governor of Chile.
• Bartolomé Santos de Risoba (1582 - 1657): Bishop of Almería, León y Sigüenza.

See also

In Spanish: Santervás de Campos para niños

• Cuisine of the province of Valladolid