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    Lares (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlaɾes], locally [ˈlaɾeʔ]) is a mountain town and municipality of Puerto Rico's central-western area. Lares is located north...
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    Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares), also referred to as the Lares revolt, the Lares rebellion, the Lares uprising, or the Lares revolution, was the first of...
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    September 1868, the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico launched the Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) revolt against Spanish rule in the island, carrying...
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    Lares is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,405. Lares was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded...
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    Grito Lares flag (Spanish: Bandera del Grito de Lares), most commonly known as La Bandera de Lares (Lares flag), represents the Grito de Lares (Cry of...
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    in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 938. Mirasol was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the...
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    barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,035. Bartolo is on the southeastern border of Lares and Adjuntas. Bartolo was...
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    flags of Puerto Rico. These flags represent and symbolize Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican people. The most commonly used flags of Puerto Rico are the...
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    Pueblo is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,838. Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable...
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    in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,695. Espino was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the...
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    declaration of independence of Puerto Rico occurred on September 23, 1868 in an event known as El Grito de Lares, where the first Puerto Rican flag was raised...
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    The Lares Ice Cream Parlor (Spanish: Heladería de Lares) is an ice cream store located in the town of Lares, Puerto Rico. The ice cream store was founded...
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    Mariana Bracetti (category People from Colonial Puerto Rico)
    Lares (Lares flag). Today, the flag is the official flag of the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Bracetti, born in the city of Añasco, Puerto Rico, met...
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    in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 5,671. Piletas was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in...
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    Hacienda Lealtad (category Lares, Puerto Rico)
    Torre, Lares, Puerto Rico. A large hacienda, it was founded in 1830, by Juan Bautista Plumey, a French immigrant, who arrived in Puerto Rico with enslaved...
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    Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Lares is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable...
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    Lares barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center (seat) of Lares, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,690. As was...
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    Manuel Rojas Luzardo (category People from Lares, Puerto Rico)
    Rojas decided to go to Puerto Rico where he met and married Obdulia de los Ríos. The Rojas family moved close to the town of Lares where they settled down...
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    in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,574. La Torre was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in...
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  • Odilio González (category People from Lares, Puerto Rico)
    Puerto Rican folkloric music, songs dedicated to Puerto Rico's jíbaro. González was born in 1937 in Piletas barrio in Lares, a municipality of Puerto...
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    the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,291. Buenos Aires was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in...
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  • Toño Bicicleta (category People from Lares, Puerto Rico)
    plantation in the Castañer ward of Lares, Puerto Rico. Police arrived at 7:20 am and Officer Luis Rosa Merced of the Puerto Rico Police Department shot the notorious...
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    PR-111 and PR-129 junction in Lares PR-134 junction sign in Bayaney, Hatillo PR-453 junction sign in Lares, Puerto Rico On PR-453 in Piletas approaching...
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    LaresPuerto Rico Highway 1111 sign in Lares PR-128 north near PR-1111 junction in Lares Puerto Rico Highways 1111, 128, 111 signs, in Lares Puerto...
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    Pezuela is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 474. The barrio is divided into about 8 sectors. The barrio has...
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    Denise Quiñones (category People from Lares, Puerto Rico)
    her hometown of Lares in the Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2001 pageant. Quiñones won the Miss Universe 2001 pageant in Bayamon, Puerto Rico in 2001. She was...
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    in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 567. Río Prieto was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in...
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  • Mathias Brugman (category People from Colonial Puerto Rico)
    Bruckman, was a leader in Puerto Rico's independence revolution against Spain known as El Grito de Lares (English: The Cry of Lares). Brugman's father was...
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    Lolita Lebrón (category People from Lares, Puerto Rico)
    and raised in Lares, Puerto Rico, where she joined the Puerto Rican Liberal Party. In her youth she met Francisco Matos Paoli, a Puerto Rican poet, with...
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    Callejones is a barrio in the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,575. Machos Cave (Spanish: Cueva Machos) and Pajita Cave...
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