Cocoa-Rockledge

Cocoa-Rockledge, adjoining cities, Brevard county, east-central Florida, U.S., on the Indian River (lagoon; part of the Intracoastal Waterway), about 45 miles (70 km) southeast of Orlando. They are linked to Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral, and the city of Cocoa Beach by causeways across the Indian and Banana rivers. Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León visited Cape Canaveral in 1513. Rockledge, founded in 1887 and incorporated as a city in 1925, was named for the formation...