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San Juan ( / ˌsæn ˈhwɑːn /, Spanish: [saŋ ˈxwan]; Spanish for "Saint John ") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 342,259.
Port of San Juan. The Port of San Juan is one of the busiest ports in the Caribbean and Latin America. / 18.463134; -66.111774. The Port of San Juan ( Spanish: Puerto de San Juan) is a seaport facility located in the metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico . The "Port of San Juan" is the general name used to call various passenger and cargo ...
The University of Puerto Rico ( Spanish: Universidad de Puerto Rico ), often shortened to UPR, is the main public university system in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It is a government-owned corporation with 11 campuses and approximately 44,200 students and approximately 4,450 faculty members. [4]
Added to NRHP. 25 November 2008. The Condado Vanderbilt Hotel is a historic luxury hotel built in 1919 and located on Ashford Avenue in the district of Condado in San Juan, capital city of the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [ 5 ]
The Walls of Old San Juan ( Spanish: Murallas del Viejo San Juan) is a defensive city wall that surrounds the western end of the San Juan Islet, site of the historic district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This defensive wall system was built between the 16th and 18th centuries to protect the city and the Bay of San Juan, a highly strategic point in ...
The Puerto Rico Ports Authority ( PRPA) ( Spanish: Autoridad de los Puertos; AP) is a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico charged with developing, operating, and overseeing all seaports and airports in Puerto Rico. [1] [2] [3] The Authority is ascribed to the Department of Transportation and Public Works and is governed by a board of ...
G. Juan Manuel García Passalacqua. Francisco Gardón Vega. Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness. Roberto González Nieves. Ramón Grosfoguel. Gladisa Guadalupe. Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón. Luis Guinot.
Santurce (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtuɾse], from the Basque Santurtzi which means Saint George) is a barrio of San Juan.Its population in 2020 was 69,469. It is also the biggest and most populated of all the barrios in the capital city with a larger population than most municipalities of Puerto Rico and one of the most densely populated areas of the island (13,257.4 persons per square mile).