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In 1973, the La Concha Hotel was united with the adjacent Condado Beach Hotel into one hotel, known as the Hyatt Puerto Rico. [5] In 1976, [ 6 ] management of the complex was taken over by Hilton International [ 7 ] and the resort was renamed the Condado Beach La Concha Convention Center , with a huge convention wing built between the two ...
La Concha may refer to: La Concha Renaissance San Juan Resort, in Puerto Rico; La Concha Motel, a former motel on the Las Vegas Strip, Nevada, United States; Beach of La Concha and La Concha Bay, in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain; La Concha Beach Club, in Havana, Cuba
Condado (Spanish for ''county'') is an urbanized, beach-front resort, commercial, and residential district with various upscale hotels, including the Vanderbilt and La Concha, restaurants, boutique shops, and condominiums in the barrio of Santurce in San Juan, the capital municipality of Puerto Rico.
The La Concha Hotel wing closed in 1995 and the state-owned hotel was known in its final years as The Condado Beach Hotel & Casino, before the entire complex closed on June 30, 1997, [22] as it was losing $7 million a year. [23] The properties sat vacant for many years, and the La Concha and Condado Beach Hotels were finally severed in 2004.
The department was created by Law 5 of April 23, 1973 [3] as a Cabinet-level successor to ASERCO, or Administration for Services to Consumers. The agency has its headquarters in the North Building of the Minillas Governmental Center/Roberto Sánchez Villela Government Center in Santurce , San Juan .
The beach itself extends from La Ventana al Mar Park on Ashford Avenue in the west to Punta Piedrita in the east. Ocean Park Beach is located further east. [ 1 ] A smaller beach, called Playita del Condado (Spanish for "Condado's small beach"), is located at the western edge of Condado, directly facing El Boquerón . [ 2 ]
Concha Meléndez Ramírez is a historic house at 1400 Vilá Mayo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is a modest two-story Spanish Revival structure, finished in adobe-colored concrete and a clay tile roof. It is a modest two-story Spanish Revival structure, finished in adobe-colored concrete and a clay tile roof.
The camp was the main training base of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry (on January 15, 1899, the military government changed the name of Puerto Rico to Porto Rico and on May 17, 1932, U.S. Congress changed the name back to "Puerto Rico") The Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry was a U.S. Army Regiment which was later renamed the "65th Infantry ...