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Vega Baja(Spanish pronunciation:[ˈbeɣaˈβaxa]) is a townand municipalitylocated on the coast of north central Puerto Rico. It is north of Morovis, east of Manatí, and west of Vega Alta. Vega Baja is spread over 14 barrios. The population of the municipality was 54,414 at the 2020 census.[2]
Tortuguero Lagoon Nature Reserve is the only freshwater lagoon in Puerto Rico. It contains about 708 million gallons of water. The reserve was designated in 1979 through a program of Coastal Zone Management PR. It is located between the municipalities of Vega Baja and Manatí. It covers approximately 2.43 km 2 (0.94 sq mi).
Vega Baja barrio-pueblo is a barrio and downtown area that serves as the administrative center of Vega Baja, a municipality of Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 816. Its population in 2010 was 816.
Designated RNSZH. February 3, 2000. Panteón Otero-Martínez, also known as Otero-Martinez Mausoleum, is a mausoleum which was built in 1886. It is located in the Old Vega Baja Cemetery, in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Panteon Otero-Martinez" in 1984, [ 1][ 2] and on the Puerto Rico ...
Vega Alta (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbeɣa ˈalta]) is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico. Vega Alta is on the northern coast of the island, north of Morovis and Corozal; east of Vega Baja; and west of Dorado with an area of 28 square miles (73 km 2). Vega Alta is subdivided into seven barrios and Vega Alta barrio-pueblo (the downtown area ...
The Casa Portela Museum ( Spanish: Museo Casa Portela) is a historic house and local history museum located in Vega Baja Pueblo, the administrative and historic center of the municipality of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. The museum consists of a historic home locally known as the Portela House ( Casa Portela) and an adjacent modern museum building ...
Otero Barreto received his primary and secondary education in Vega Baja. He attended college at the University of Puerto Rico, studying biology for three years and spending another two years in training at the same school until September 1959 when he joined the U.S. Army, which he chose over medical school in Spain. [5]
Casa Alonso. / 18.44611°N 66.38667°W / 18.44611; -66.38667. Casa Alonso is a house museum and cultural center in Vega Baja Pueblo, the historic downtown of the municipality of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1] The house is also known as Museo de Arte, Historia y Cultura ...