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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 December 2024. Capital and largest city of Puerto Rico Capital city and Municipality in Puerto Rico, United States San Juan Municipio Autónomo de San Juan Capital city and Municipality Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Santurce, San Juan Bay, and Old San Juan from San Cristóbal Fortress Old San ...
In 1865, Juan Serrallés Colón (1845–1921) founded Destilería Serrallés, a rum producer located in Ponce, Puerto Rico, known for its Don Q (from Don Quixote) rum brand. [33] Don Q is one of several rums made in the island archipelago. Five-generations on, it is still run by the Serrallés family over a century after its founding.
Columbus named the island San Juan Bautista, in honor of Saint John the Baptist, while the capital city was named Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("Rich Port City"). [21] Eventually traders and other maritime visitors came to refer to the entire island as Puerto Rico, while San Juan became the name used for the main trading/shipping port and the capital ...
San Juan Island National Historical Park, on San Juan Island in the state of in Washington; San Pedro Springs Park, in San Antonio, Texas; San Pitch Recreation Area, located in the western portion of the Manti-La Sal National Forest and San Pitch Mountains, in central Utah; Unidad Park, Los Angeles, California
Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni , is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina.
Old San Juan (Spanish: Viejo San Juan) is a historic district located at the "northwest triangle" [2] of the islet of San Juan in San Juan.Its area roughly correlates to the Ballajá, Catedral, Marina, Mercado, San Cristóbal, and San Francisco sub-barrios (sub-districts) of barrio San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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 ...
San Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States.It has a land area of 142.59 km 2 (55.053 sq mi) and a population of 8,632 [2] as of the 2020 census.