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Casa Márquez is a historic manor house located in Hormigueros Pueblo, the administrative and historic center of the municipality of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.The manor house dates to at least 1823 when it was built at the site of plantation and hacienda, with modifications being made in 1885 and 1935.
The Puerto Rico Department of Housing, created in 1972, [9] succeeded the Urban Renewal and Housing Corporation, or Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda (CRUV, its Spanish acronym), [10] which was created in the late 1950s to succeed the Puerto Rico Housing Authority, created by Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín and headed by Juan César Cordero ...
Apartamentos Valles de Torrimar, Avenida Los Filtros, Barriada Cano, Barriada Cruz Meléndez, Barrio Frailes Llano, Barrio Piedras Blancas, Calle Casimiro Villegas, Calle Juan Martínez, Calle Ramón Murgas, Calle Vandal, Calle Villegas Valcarcel, Comunidad Los Frailes, Condominios Alta Vista, Condominios Altos de Torrimar I, II, III, IV, V, y ...
July 19, 1995 (Highway 9959, km 3, spanning Río Canóvanas: Canóvanas Pueblo and Canóvanas: Built in 1892 on the 19th century highway between Río Piedras and Río Grande, this iron and masonry bridge is the best preserved example of an Eiffel pony truss bridge in Puerto Rico or the United States.
During that era, the area was known as "Camp Las Casas". [1] It also was Puerto Rico's first commercial air field, with the first Puerto Rican pilot, Félix Rigau Carrera, taking off on the first inter-island flight from the air field, and Aerovías Nacionales de Puerto Rico offering airline service during the 1930s. [2]
Guaynabo (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwajˈnaβo], locally) is a city and municipality on the northeastern coastal plain of Puerto Rico.Located west of the capital San Juan, east of Bayamón, south of Cataño and San Juan Bay, and north of Aguas Buenas, Guaynabo is spread over 9 barrios and the downtown area and administrative center of Guaynabo Pueblo.
Guayabo was in Spain's gazetteers [6] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States.
Caparra is an archaeological site in the municipality of Guaynabo in northeastern Puerto Rico. Declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1994, the site contains the remains of the first European settlement and capital of the main island of Puerto Rico, specifically the foundations of the residence of Juan Ponce de León, the first European conquistador and governor of Puerto Rico.