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The Diocese of Arecibo (Latin: Dioecesis Arecibensis Spanish: Diócesis de Arecibo) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church and consists of half of the northern portion of the island of Puerto Rico, [1] a commonwealth of the United States. The mother church is the Catedral de San Felipe Apostol located in ...
July 19, 1995 (Spanning Río Grande de Arecibo, west of Puerto Rico Highway 2: Cambalache and Tanamá: Steel bridge built by the Puerto Rico Railway Company in 1893 spanning the Arecibo River as a connector between San Juan and Arecibo.
Located across from the central plaza in Arecibo barrio-pueblo is the Catedral San Felipe Apostól, [9] the second-largest Roman Catholic church in Puerto Rico. It was built in 1616, then reconstructed in 1793. After the ceiling of the central nave was damaged by the 1918 San Fermín earthquake it was reconstructed in concrete. [10]
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Arecibo is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions. [1] The barrios and subbarrios, [ 2 ] in turn, are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores ( sectors in English).
It was their fourth settlement on the island, after Caparra (which later became San Juan), San German, and Coamo. [9] Arecibo was officially founded as a town [10] by the Spanish crown on May 1, 1616, under the governorship of Captain Felipe de Beaumont y Navarra, when the King of Spain granted the land (and the Taino living there) to Lope ...
Fishing at Rio Abacoa in Arecibo. Aracibo governed a tribe whose village was located by the shore of the river "Abacoa" (now known as the "Río Grande de Arecibo"). Aracibo had been known to be a "just" and respected cacique and his tribe had led a peaceful existence before the arrival of the Spaniards. The rivers close to the village were full ...
Miraflores is a barrio in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 5,863. [3] [4] [5] History.
Islote is a barrio in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 5,665. Its population in 2010 was 5,665. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] "Birth of a New World", a giant sculpture of Christopher Columbus on a ship, is located in Islote.