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Entrance to Julio Monagas Park in Barrio Bucana, Ponce, Puerto Rico. The park is located in barrio Bucana, at the merging of Rio Portugues and Rio Bucana, off PR-2 (Ponce By-pass). The park was built at a cost of over $3 million. History. The park was created under the administration of Ponce mayor Rafael Cordero Santiago.
Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 266. Item 1331. LCCN 92-75480; Juan Sisco Santiago. "Los barrios y sectores." La Perla del Sur. 23-29 Octubre 1985 p. 13; Mapa de Municipios y Barrios: Ponce, Memoria Numero 27. Gobierno del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Junta de Planificación. Santurce ...
Julio Enrique Monagas (1900/1903 – 14 July 1984) was a Puerto Rican sports editor and administrator considered the father of Olympic sports in Puerto Rico. Through his efforts, Puerto Rico was admitted into the Olympic Games in 1948.
The Ponce metropolitan area (Spanish: área metropolitana de Ponce), is the second largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in Puerto Rico, comprising the municipalities of Ponce, Juana Díaz, Yauco, Villalba, Peñuelas, Adjuntas, and Guayanilla between the coastal plain and the Cordillera Central mountain subrange in the south central region of the main island.
Typical dishes of Monagas state are arepa (a kind of bread made of maize), cachapa (an omelette made of maize), casabe, empanada, mondongo (a kind of soup), queso de mano (a kind of cheese), jalea de guayaba (guava jelly), and carne en vara (meat grilled on a stick). Fish is a very important food in the state's native cuisine.
Parque del Retiro; Parque del Tricentenario (Ponce, Puerto Rico) Urban Ecological Park; Parque Familiar Julio Enrique Monagas; Parque Graciela Rivera; Parque Lineal Veredas del Labrador; Luis A. "Wito" Morales Park; Parque Pedro Albizu Campos; Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell; Plaza Degetau; Plaza Las Delicias; Plaza Muñoz Rivera
This list of parks in Ponce, Puerto Rico, consists of the parks in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Passive as well as active parks are included; but recreational-use only parks, such as baseball stadiums, are omitted. Public parks maintained by both the municipal government as well as the central island government are listed.
The park is named after Julio Enrique Monagas, the first director of Puerto Rico's Public Recreation and Parks Commission and also considered the father of the Olympic movement in Puerto Rico. Before its establishment in 1993, the area was a military installation during the Second World War , and many of the bunkers and ammunition warehouses ...