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The Municipal Finance Corporation —Spanish: Corporación de Financiamiento Municipal (COFIM)— is a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico that issues government bonds and uses other financing mechanisms to pay or refinance, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, the debts of the municipalities of Puerto Rico payable or backed by the Puerto Rican municipal sales and use tax. [1]
Guaynabo (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwajˈnaβo], locally) is a city and municipality on the northeastern coastal plain of Puerto Rico.Located west of the capital San Juan, east of Bayamón, south of Cataño and San Juan Bay, and north of Aguas Buenas, Guaynabo is spread over 9 barrios and the downtown area and administrative center of Guaynabo Pueblo.
The Telephone and Telegraph Station of Guaynabo (Spanish: Oficina de Telégrafo y Teléfono de Guaynabo) is a one-story flat roof building located in the downtown area of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. It was designed in the Art Deco style and constructed entirely of reinforced concrete with glass blocks and ornamental ironwork.
With an area of 1,438 sq mi (3,725 km 2) [4] [5] and an estimated population of 2,035,733, the San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas metropolitan area (MSA) is the largest and most populous in Puerto Rico, covering 40 of 78 municipalities in the eastern half of the main island. San Juan, Bayamón, Caguas, and Guaynabo are considered to be its principal ...
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Guaynabo barrio-pueblo is a barrio and the administrative center of Guaynabo, a municipality of Puerto Rico.Its population in 2010 was 4,008. [1] [4] [5] [6]As was customary in Spain, in Puerto Rico, the municipality has a barrio called pueblo which contains a central plaza, the municipal buildings (city hall), and a Catholic church.
In Guaynabo, the 10 barrios are subdivided into a total of 520 sectors. Among those, 161 bear sector in their names. Those are typically rural sectors. 145 condominios (apartment buildings), 129 urbanización (residential areas), and 37 calle (street, also typically rural sectors).
The name camarones meaning "shrimp" in English comes from the Camarones River.. Camarones was in Spain's gazetteers [6] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States.