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National Register entries listed below are found in San Juan municipality, highlighted here. This portion of National Register of Historic Places listings in Puerto Rico covers the municipality of San Juan. Names of places given are as appear in the National Register, reflecting name as given in NRHP application at the date of listing.
The first carvings were discovered in autumn 1973 in the area of Jiepmaluokta (a Northern Sami name meaning "bay of seals"), about 4 kilometres from the town centre of Alta. During the 1970s, many more carvings were discovered all around Alta, with a noticeably higher density around Jiepmaluokta (of around 6000 known carvings in the area, more ...
Cabezas de San Juan Nature Reserve consists mainly of a large peninsula located in the north-westernmost corner of Puerto Rico and its surrounding bodies of water. The reserve is connected to the west to Seven Seas State Park (Parque Nacional Seven Seas) and the Northeast Ecological Corridor, and by sea in the east to La Cordillera Reef Nature Reserve, a large protected marine area consisting ...
In terms of the United States 2000 Census, La Perla is composed of Census blocks 3001 through 3010 (Block group 3, Census tract 4, San Juan, Puerto Rico).A population of 338 was reported, 198 housing units (29 unoccupied), and 169 households, on an area of 80,028 square yards (16.53 acres; 66,914 m²).
The municipality of San Juan is divided into 18 barrios, 16 of which fall within the former (until 1951) municipality of Río Piedras. Eight of the barrios are further divided into subbarrios, [ 1 ] and they include the two barrios that originally composed the municipality of San Juan (namely, San Juan Antiguo and Santurce): [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
The Walls of Old San Juan (Spanish: Murallas del Viejo San Juan) is a defensive city wall that surrounds the western end of the San Juan Islet, site of the historic district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This defensive wall system was built between the 16th and 18th centuries to protect the city and the Bay of San Juan , a highly strategic point in ...
San Juan National Historic Site (Spanish: Sitio Histórico Nacional de San Juan) in the Old San Juan section of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a National Park Service-managed historic site which preserves and interprets the Spanish colonial-era fortification system of the city of San Juan, and features structures such as the San Felipe del Morro and San Cristóbal fortresses. [3]
Castillo de San Cristóbal located at the northeast corner of the defensive wall system that encircles Old San Juan, it was built to provide protection against land and maritime attacks. El Cañuelo located in Isla de Cabras in the modern-day municipality of Toa Baja across from El Morro, it was built to control the maritime access into the Bay ...