<Tr> <Th> Offshore water bodies </Th> <Td> Atlantic Ocean </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Elevation </Th> <Td> 10 ft (3 m) </Td> </Tr> <P> Cape Canaveral, from the Spanish Cabo Cañaveral, is a cape in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast . Known as Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River . It was discovered by the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León in 1513 . </P> <P> It is part of a region known as the Space Coast, and is the site of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station . Since many U.S. spacecraft have been launched from both the station and the Kennedy Space Center on adjacent Merritt Island, the two are sometimes conflated with each other . In homage to its spacefaring heritage, the Florida Public Service Commission allocated area code 321 (as in a launch countdown) to the Cape Canaveral area . </P>

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