San Juan de Puerto Rico. It is one of the oldest buildings in Old San Juan, the oldest cathedral in the United States, and the second-oldest cathedral in...
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with a population of 342,259. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("City of Puerto Rico", Spanish for rich...
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By 1980 the San Juan metropolitan area included the surrounding municipalities to the east and west and had about one-third of Puerto Rico's total population;...
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San Cristóbal, and San Francisco sub-barrios (sub-districts) of barrio San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Old San Juan is...
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of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, and east of...
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Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico (Latin: Archidiœcesis Sancti Joannis Portoricensis Spanish: Arquidiócesis de San Juan de Puerto Rico) is a Latin...
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populous district of San Juan, and former town and municipality of Puerto Rico, which was merged with the municipality of San Juan in 1951. The district...
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San Juan National Historic Site (Spanish: Sitio Histórico Nacional de San Juan) in the Old San Juan section of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a National Park...
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The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (Spanish: Catedral San Juan Bautista) is an Episcopal cathedral in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the seat of the...
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timeline of the history of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1511 – First Catholic Diocese established in San Juan 1521 – "Ciudad de San Juan Bautista...
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Puerto Rico (Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR; Taino: Borikén or Borinquen), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado...
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interred in Puerto Rico; his tomb is located inside the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista in San Juan. Juan Ponce de León was born in the village of Santervás...
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part of the San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area in Puerto Rico. Fajardo is the hub of much of the recreational boating in Puerto Rico and...
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miles (80 km) west of San Juan, the capital city. Arecibo is the largest municipality in Puerto Rico by area, and it is the core city of the Arecibo Metropolitan...
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San José Church (Spanish: Iglesia de San José), located in Old San Juan within the historic colonial zone of the capital of Puerto Rico, is one of the...
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municipality in Puerto Rico located in the eastern coast of the island, north of Yabucoa; south of Naguabo; east of Las Piedras; and west of Vieques Passage...
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colonial army, mainly in San Juan. Many of these men who served in the Spanish colonial army in Puerto Rico remained in the service of Spain after their military...
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Ponce de León II (birth name: Juan Troche Ponce de León), was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Viceroyalty of New Spain, to Juan García "Gracia" Troche and...
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southern coast of Puerto Rico. The most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, was founded on August 12, 1692 and is named after Juan Ponce de...
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Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (redirect from Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Ponce, Puerto Rico))
downtown Ponce, Puerto Rico. The cathedral lies in the middle of Ponce's town square, known as Plaza Las Delicias, located at the center of the Ponce Historic...
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northern Puerto Rico on 4 and 5 October. The storm started at night, lasted 24 hours, and ruined the major part of the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico, including...
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The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the Ortoiroid people before 430 BC. At the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World...
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San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, most commonly refers to: San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan, Argentina San Juan, Metro Manila, a city in the Philippines...
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of Puerto Rico's central-western area. Lares is located north of Maricao and Yauco; south of Camuy, east of San Sebastián and Las Marias; and west of...
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Ramón Power y Giralt (category Burials at the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista, Puerto Rico)
representation of Puerto Rico before the Cortes of Cádiz, the parliamentary government of Spain at the time. Power was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Joaquín...
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overwhelmed and took the Spanish fortress Castillo San Felipe del Morro and thus took the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. They were able to hold the castle for 65...
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architecture of Puerto Rico demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over four centuries of former...
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Capilla del Cristo (category History of San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Cristo (Chapel of Christ), also called Capilla del Santo Cristo de la Salud is a small chapel / museum located in the Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Built in the...
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Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico resulted in the 19th century from widespread economic and political changes in Europe that made life difficult for...
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Luis Aponte Martínez (category Burials at the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista, Puerto Rico)
a Puerto Rican Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of San Juan from 1965 to 1999. He is the only Puerto Rican to have been named a cardinal of the...
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