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Flag of Puerto Rico: 1952 [1] Seal: Seal of Puerto Rico: 1976 [1] Coat of arms: Coat of arms of Puerto Rico: 1976 [1] Flower: Thespesia grandiflora: 2019 [2] [3] Song " La Borinqueña" 1977 [1] Motto: Joannes Est Nomen Ejus (Latin for "John is his name") 1905 [4] Nickname: Isla del Encanto (Spanish for "Island of Enchantment") [5]
The fire burned down the major buildings of the "Marina de Ponce". [23] This moved Puerto Rico governor Conde de Marisol to create a new voluntary fire-fighting organization island-wide. [citation needed] In 1887 the Spanish government built a lighthouse at Caja de Muertos Light on an island by the same name just off the coast of barrio Playa. [25]
The Icacos Petroglyph Group (Spanish: Grupo de Petroglifos de Icacos), also known as the Río Blanco Petroglyphs (Petroglifos de Río Blanco), is an ensemble of indigenous petroglyphs that can be found on four large boulders located at the confluence of the Icacos and Cubuy rivers, within the El Toro Wilderness section of El Yunque National Forest.
Discover Puerto Rico. 2017. Accessed 28 January 2017. Hydrogeology and Hydrology of the Punta Cabullones Wetland Area, Ponce, Southern Puerto Rico, 2007–08. Jesús Rodríguez-Martínez and Luis R. Soler-López. Prepared in cooperation with the Municipio Autónomo de Ponce and the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources ...
Puerto Nuevo 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.
Español: Escudo de Puerto Rico: un escudo verde y dentro de él un cordero plateado sentado encima de la biblia la cual a su vez contiene los siete sellos que representa los juicios de Dios escrito en el libro de Revelaciones por Apostol San Juan cuando era prisionero en la Isla de Patmos, atravesado por una bandera con una cruz e su veleta como la trae la devysa de Sanct Joan e por orla ...
Nazario was also an author and published Guayanilla y la Historia de Puerto Rico, in which he analyzed the second voyage of Christopher Columbus and cited evidence for the likelihood that the municipality was the landing point of this expedition at Puerto Rico.
The Carnaval de Vejigantes, officially Carnaval de Vejigantes de La Playa de Ponce, [10] is an annual celebration held at Barrio Playa in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The celebration, which commonly lasts three to five days, [11] generally takes place in late January or early February. [12] It started in 1991. [13]