Gonzalo Méndez de Canço (or de Cancio) (c. 1554 – March 31 1622) was a Spanish Admiral and the seventh Governor of Florida (1596–1603) but he was best known for having introduced the cultivation of corn from Florida to Asturias which turned out to be very important to that province.
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