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Ponce (US: / ˈ p ɔː n s eɪ, ˈ p oʊ n-/ PAWN-say, POHN-, UK: / ˈ p ɒ n-/ PON-, Spanish: ⓘ) is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. [25] The most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, Ponce was founded on August 12, 1692 [note 1] [26] [20] [27] [17] and is named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, [28] the great-grandson of Spanish ...
In Puerto Rico, the term barrio has two very different meanings. Officially, Ponce has 31 barrios; this is according to local, insular, and federal governments.However, there is a second meaning for barrio that does not correlate with the official meaning and one that is meant to refer, loosely, to a sector or portion of an official barrio.
Map of major roads in Ponce, Puerto Rico, shown in red. This is a list of highways in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The list focuses on major, signed, roads in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. [1] [2] The list shows local roads, that is, those with both terminuses within the municipality ("intra-municipal" roads), as well as inter-municipal roads.
Puerto Rico Highway 14 (PR-14) is a main highway connecting Ponce to Cayey, Puerto Rico. [2] The road runs the same course as the historic Carretera Central. The Ponce-to-Coamo section of PR-14 was built under the direction of Spanish engineer Raimundo Camprubí Escudero (b. Pamplona 15 March 1846 – d.
The Ponce Historic Zone (Spanish: Zona Histórica de Ponce) is a historic district in downtown Ponce, Puerto Rico, consisting of buildings, plazas and structures with distinctive architectures such as Neoclásico Isabelino and the Ponce Creole, a local architectural style developed between the 19th- and early 20th-centuries. [1]
Puerto Rico Highway 2: Avenida Las Américas: 0.5 (0.80) [a] 2 S ↔ N — Avenida Santiago de los Caballeros: Port of Ponce: Avenida Tito Castro: 3.28 (5.28) 4–6 S ↔ N Some segments are 4 lanes only Avenida Tito Castro: Puerto Rico Highway 12: Puerto Rico Highway 139: 3.0 (4.8) [a] 4 W ↔ E
Puerto Rico Highway 502 (PR-502) is a tertiary [2] state [3] highway in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The road runs north to south through barrio Quebrada Limón . Its southern terminus is at an intersection with PR-132 .
Puerto Rico Highway 585 (PR-585) is tertiary [2] state highway in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The road leads from PR-2R in Sector Pámpanos of Barrio Canas to Avenida Padre Noel in Barrio Playa. It runs west to east, starting from its western terminus at PR-2R (Carretera Pámpanos) and ending at its eastern terminus at PR-123 (Avenida Hostos). [3]