# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hernando-de-escalante-fontaneda
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:32:02.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hernando-de-escalante-fontaneda"
name: "Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda"
slug: "hernando-de-escalante-fontaneda"
description: "Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda was a Spanish shipwreck survivor who lived among the Native Americans of Florida for 17 years. His circa 1575 memoir, Memoria de las cosas y costa y indios de la Florida, is one of the most valuable contemporary accounts of American Indian life from that period. The manuscript can be found in the General Archive of the Indies. In all, he produced five documents describing the peoples of Native Florida."
tagline: "Spanish shipwreck survivor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
birthDate: "1536"
deathDate: "1575"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.41
  momentum:             3.26797385620915
  historical:           8.095898666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ернандо де Ескаланте Фонтанеда"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيرناندو دى اسكالانتى فونتانيدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Escalante_Fontaneda"
    title: "Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Escalante_Fontaneda"
    title: "Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Escalante_Fontaneda"
    title: "Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Escalante_Fontaneda"
    title: "Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Escalante_Fontaneda"
    title: "Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Escalante_Fontaneda"
    title: "Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Escalante_Fontaneda"
    title: "Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2196510"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump