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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 ...
Fay Fowlie de Flores. Ponce, Perla del Sur: Una Bibliográfica Anotada. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Prior to being established as a barrio of Ponce, around 1597, the bay of Ponce had a small place populated by Christian European settlers that was called Bucaná. [5] In 1800, Bucaná was known as Coto Bucaná, [6] a type of grant of land suitable for farming to a resident by the Spanish king in recognition for some service provided by the resident to the King.
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]
It is bounded on the North by J. J. Cartagena Street (Las Delicias community), Ruth Fernandez Boulevard, and Camino de Ponce (Golf Club) Road, on the South by PR-123, Ausencia Street, and La Gloria Street, on the West by the hills west of PR-123, and on the East by Novedades Street, the hills east of Ponce Cement and the future western branch of PR-9.