In 1698 the Spanish established a presidio in the area, from which the modern city gradually developed. Spanish explorer Tristán de Luna founded a short-lived settlement in 1559. The Pensacola people lived there at the time of European contact, and Creek people frequently visited and traded from present-day southern Alabama and Mississippi and southeast of Louisiana.
The area was originally inhabited by Muskogean-speaking peoples. The main campus of the University of West Florida is situated north of the city center. A large United States Naval Air Station, the first in the United States, is located southwest of Pensacola near Warrington it is the base of the Blue Angels flight demonstration team and the National Naval Aviation Museum. Pensacola is a seaport on Pensacola Bay, which is protected by the barrier island of Santa Rosa and connects to the Gulf of Mexico. Augustine by 6 years, although the settlement was abandoned due to a hurricane and not re-established until 1698.
Pensacola is the site of the first Spanish settlement within the borders of the continental United States in 1559, predating the establishment of St. Pensacola is the principal city of the Pensacola Metropolitan Area, which had an estimated 502,629 residents as of 2019. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 54,312. Pensacola ( / ˌ p ɛ n s ə ˈ k oʊ l ə/) is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, and the county seat and only incorporated city of Escambia County, Florida, United States.
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