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The Acueducto de Ponce (Ponce Aqueduct), formally Acueducto Alfonso XII, [4] is the name of a historic 2.5-mile [2] gravity-based water supply system in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico. It was designed in 1875 by Timoteo Luberza and built the following years. [5] This aqueduct was the first modern water distribution system built in Puerto Rico. [6]
Lake Cerrillos (Spanish: Lago Cerrillos) is a human-made lake located in barrio Maragüez, Ponce, Puerto Rico. [2] The lake was finished in 1992 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [3] The main purposes of the reservoir are flood control, water supply, and recreation.
Cristalia Premium Water is a producer of bottled drinking water in Puerto Rico. The company is headquartered in Barrio Coto Laurel, Ponce, Puerto Rico. [9] It is Puerto Rico's largest manufacturer and supplier of bottled water. [10] In 2006, the Company was recognized by Beverage World Magazine as "the premier bottled water in 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 ...
The Puerto Rico Power Authority building located at 1110 Ave Ponce De Leon, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907 is named after Antonio Lucchetti. [citation needed] In Arecibo, Puerto Rico, there the "Escuela Superior Vocacional Antonio Luchetti" high school named in his honor. [14] In Yauco there is a 108-hectares man-made lake and dam named after him ...
The municipal building was intended to serve the Ponce Playa settlement which had significantly grown thanks to the economic and industrial activities of the Port of Ponce. It was designed by engineer Manuel V. Domenech and municipal chief engineer Victor A. Auffant in a Renaissance-inspired Spanish Revival style and built in 1904. [1]
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.
Club Náutico de Ponce looking southwest. The idea of building a Club in Isla de Gatas began in 1935 by seven men, among them Pedro Juan Serralles Galiano. [2] At that time the island had an area of approximately 1-acre (0.40 ha) and people had to take a small boat to reach it.