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The Nazario Collection (Spanish: Colección Nazario), [3] also known as Agüeybaná's Library (Spanish: Biblioteca de Agüeybaná), [citation needed] Father Nazario's Rocks (Spanish: Piedras del Padre Nazario), [citation needed] and the Phoenician Rocks (Spanish: Piedras Fenicias), are a cache of carved stones that originated at Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.
The river gives its name to Río Piedras, a former town and municipality, today a district of San Juan. Even if the Piedras River is considered a tributary of the Puerto Nuevo River , the hydrological basin it belongs to is often referred to as the Río Piedras watershed and it is ecologically important for the San Juan Bay estuary and the ...
The aqueduct and its surrounding buildings were added as the Acueducto de San Juan historic district to the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 2007. [7] The historic district is composed of a small weir that supplied water from the Piedras River; a valve room; six sedimentation and filtration tanks; an engine room with its carbon deposit; and an employee house.
The Río Piedras Bridge (Spanish: Puente de Río Piedras) or Piedras River Bridge (Puente del Río Piedras), also designated as Bridge #3, is a historic 19th-century barrel vault bridge located in the former town of Río Piedras, today part of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, that spans across the Piedras River. [1]
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus with its clock tower, the Roosevelt Tower. Río Piedras (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈrio ˈpjeðɾas]) (Spanish for ''stones river'') is an urbanized commercial and residential district in San Juan, the capital municipality of Puerto Rico, concentrated in the barrios of Pueblo, Universidad, Hato Rey Sur, El Cinco, Monacillo Urbano.
The Vigil House (Spanish: Casa Vigil) is a historic late 19th-century residence located in the Pueblo barrio, the former administrative and historic center of the town of Río Piedras before it was incorporated into the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The house is notable for being highly representative of wooden dwellings of the Puerto ...
Río Piedras Pueblo (officially just Pueblo, unofficially downtown Río Piedras), is one of 18 barrios in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. [3] [4] [5] Rio Piedras Pueblo is what used to be the urban center-barrio (downtown district) of the former municipality of Río Piedras until 1951, when the municipality of Rio Piedras was merged with the municipality of San Juan.
Plaza de Diego Mall was an enclosed shopping mall formerly located in the Paseo de Diego area of Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. At its peak it had 40+ establishments, and was anchored by a Goody’s Department Store. Being closed by 2014, it would be demolished in 2020, then redeveloped and turned into a housing project named De Diego Village which ...