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Ponce's first [b] mayor was Don Pedro Sánchez de Mathos, in 1692, appointed by governor Juan Robles de Lorenzana. Ponce elected its first mayor (as well as its first Municipal Assembly) on 20 September 1812. [3] Its first elected mayor was José Ortiz de la Renta, who took office in 1812. Ortiz de la Renta occupied the post of mayor on eight ...
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 ...
The Ponce City Hall has one of the most unusual histories of any city hall throughout the world, because it was a jail until the end of the 19th century. [3] Rooms currently used as offices were jail cells before, and the courtyard of the City Hall was the place where executions took place. [3]
This is a list of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico's southern economic center, the island's second largest [1] and second most important city. [2] [3]From 1692 to 1840, the office of mayor [a] in Ponce was filled either by local hacendados or by military officers appointed by the governor, depending on whether the political situation on Spain at the time was that of a constitutional or an ...
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.
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.
Archivo Histórico de Ponce, officially, Archivo Histórico de Ponce Gladys E. Tormes González, [3] is a historical archive in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is considered "the most complete historical archive in Puerto Rico".
The Ponce Municipal Police headquarters are located on Avenida Las Américas and Carretera Pámpanos in barrio Canas at the Secretaría de Recreación y Deportes building. A new building, which used to be occupied by the Ponce regional headquarters of the Puerto Rico Police on Avenida Hostos in Barrio Canas Urbano, is currently under refurbishment to become the new headquarters of the Ponce ...