Ponce de Leon Bay

Ponce de Leon Bay is a bay on the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern Florida in the United States. The bay is located in Monroe County at the northwestern end of Cape Sable in the Everglades National Park. Ponce de Leon Bay leads into Oyster Bay to the east, then into Whitewater Bay. The bay lies between Northwest Cape and Shark Point. It is named after Juan Ponce de León, a Spanish explorer who was the first recorded European to reach Florida.

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v t e Coastal waters of Florida
Bays	Apalachicola Barnes Biscayne Blackwater Choctawhatchee East Escambia Estero Florida Matanzas Palm Palma Sola Pensacola Perdido Ponce de Leon Sarasota St. Andrews St. Joseph Tampa Whitewater
Inlets	Baker's Haulover Blind Pass Captiva Pass Caxambas Pass Gasparilla Pass Hillsboro Lake Worth Matanzas Pensacola Pass Ponce de Leon Redfish Pass Sebastian South Lake Worth St. Lucie
Lagoons	Banana River Guana River Halifax River Indian River Lake Worth Marquesas Keys Matanzas River Mosquito Lagoon
See also	Big Bend Coast Florida Everglades Intracoastal Waterway List of Florida rivers