Cape Canaveral, from the Spanish Cabo Canaveral, 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. rivert is part of a region known as the Space Coast, and is the site of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.