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The 2024 Puerto Rican municipal election was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the mayors of the 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico, concurrently with the election of the Governor, the Resident Commissioner, the Senate, the House of Representatives, a Status referendum and a Presidential straw poll. [1]
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Corozal is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions. [1] The barrios [ 2 ] in turn, are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores ( sectors in English).
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 ...
First administrator of Cooperativa de Cafeteros de Puerto Rico, Café Rico. Antonio Luis Ferré, businessman and industrialist Owner of Ferré-Rangel media emporium. Luberza Oppenheimer, Isabel Madam of a notorious brothel. Francisco Parra Duperón, lawyer Founder of Puerto Rico's oldest law firm in continuous operation, Parra, del Valle & Limeres.