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In 1903, the first Baptist church opened its doors in Gurabo town. Gurabo is also known as "La Ciudad de las Escaleras", or the "City of Stairs". Located in the town center district of El Cerro, the stairs (step streets) are about twenty-two floors high, and they are painted in bright colors. [2] Gurabo's mayor is Rosachely Rivera Santana. [3]
The district is located on a steep hill just south of the main town square of Gurabo. One of the most distinctive features of El Cerro are its step streets, pedestrian streets that consists of colorfully painted stairs. These step streets give Gurabo one of its nicknames Pueblo de las Escaleras ("town of the stairs").
The barrios and subbarrios, [2] in turn, are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores ( sectors in English). The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial, among others. Some sectors appear in two barrios.
00778. Gurabo barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center ( seat) of Gurabo, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,509. [1] [4] [5] [6] As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church.
Caguas (Spanish pronunciation:, locally) is a city and municipality 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 Aguas Buenas, Cidra, and Cayey.
Church San José of Gurabo. / 18.254946°N 65.972433°W / 18.254946; -65.972433. The Church San José of Gurabo ( Spanish: Iglesia San José de Gurabo) is a historic Catholic parish church located in Gurabo Pueblo (downtown Gurabo) in the municipality of Gurabo, Puerto Rico. [ 2] The parish church is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese ...
The Caguas Valley (Spanish: Valle de Caguas), or the Caguas-Juncos Valley and popularly referred to as the Turabo Valley (Spanish: Valle del Turabo), is a large valley lying between the Central Mountain Range and the Sierra Luquillo in the eastern part of Puerto Rico, immediately south of San Juan.
Over 10,000 athletes will sail down the Seine on Friday in what is poised to be most ambitious Olympic opening ceremony ever attempted. The 2024 Olympics, which kick off this week in Paris, are ...