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NUC University, (formerly known as National University College) is the largest for-profit private university in Puerto Rico with its main campus in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. [3] The university was founded in 1982 as the National College , and offers undergraduate studies and graduate studies in health , business administration , education ...
Instituto de Banca y Comercio was founded by Fidel Alonso-Valls in 1974 in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, where it only had two classrooms and 15 students. Initially, it was an institution specialized in preparing tellers for the banking industry in Puerto Rico. Hence its original name, International Banking School.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Caguas is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
Originally installed in 1881 over the Río de la Plata, this span survived an 1899 hurricane, then was moved and re-installed on new abutments in 1908. As of 1995, it was the oldest bridge truss in Puerto Rico, employing a double pony truss design and unique open-web transverse joists. [ 15 ]
Puerto Rico Highway 1 (PR-1) is a highway in Puerto Rico that connects the city of Ponce to San Juan.Leaving Ponce, the road heads east and follows a somewhat parallel route along the southern coast of the island heading towards Salinas.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Alcaldia de Caguas in March 22, 1989. [3] This building hosted municipal offices until 2010 when the new city hall building was inaugurated. The building now houses several cultural institutions including a museum dedicated to the history of Caguas. [4]
Early in 1512, Cerón redistributed Ponce de León's caciques among his friends and banished Caguax, along with his relatives and entourage, to Hacienda del Toa in the northern coastal plain, west of Caparra, the first Spanish settlement on the island. His mother, siblings, wives and children have been identified by records that were sent to la ...
The San Juan-Caguas Rail project, named NOVOTRÉN, [1] was a planned rail transit link between the Puerto Rican cities of San Juan and Caguas through a "regional rail network". The plan was announced by the Mayor of Caguas, William Miranda Marín , along with former governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá on March 9, 2007 ( 2007-03-09 ) .