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Gonzalo Mndez de Cano y Donlebn was a Spanish admiral who served as the seventh governor of the Spanish province of La Florida . He fought in the Battle of San Juan against the English admiral Francis Drake. During his tenure as governor of Florida, he dealt severely with a rebellion known as Juanillos revolt among the Native Americans in Guale, forcing them, as well as other tribes in Florida, to submit to Spanish domination. De Cano was best known, however, for promoting the cultivation of maize in the province, and for introducing its cultivation to Asturias, Spain, where it eventually became an important crop.

Gonzalo Mndez de Cano was born in 1554 at Tapia de Casariego, in the parish of San Esteban de Tapia, Asturias, Spain. He was the son of Diego de Cano Donlebn and Maria Mendez de San Julin y Villaamil, descendants of a family of hidalgos. Nothing of his childhood is known, but he joined the Armada de la Carrera de las Indias at age 14.

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