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    San Cristóbal, and San Francisco sub-barrios (sub-districts) of barrio San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Old San Juan is...
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    San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("City of Puerto Rico", Spanish for rich port city). Puerto Rico's...
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    is a large fortress and citadel in the historic district of Old San Juan in Puerto Rico. Commissioned by King Charles I of Spain in 1539, it was first...
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    San Juan del Puerto, Spain is a municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain. In 2005 it had a population of 6,881. Municipal Register of Spain...
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    "A walking tour of Santurce". Puerto Rico Daily Sun. Retrieved March 29, 2010. "La Plaza del Mercado in Santurce, San Juan: The Complete Guide". TripSavvy...
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    Castillo San Cristóbal (English: Saint Christopher Castle) is a fortress in the historic district of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as the largest fortification...
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    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...
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    Catholic cathedral for the Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico. It is one of the oldest buildings in Old San Juan, the oldest cathedral in the United States...
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    San Juan del Puerto was a Spanish Franciscan mission founded before 1587 on Fort George Island, near the mouth of the St. Johns River in what is now Jacksonville...
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  • San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, most commonly refers to: San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan, Argentina San Juan, Metro Manila, a city in the Philippines...
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    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...
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    del Castillo San Felipe del Morro (English: Lighthouse of Promontory Castle of Saint Phillip), also known as Puerto San Juan Light (Light of Port San...
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    workplace of the governor of Puerto Rico. Located in the historical district of Old San Juan in the capital city of San Juan, it has served as the residence...
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    mayors of San Juan, Puerto Rico. San Juan is the capitol of Puerto Rico.   New Progressive Party (5)   Popular Democratic Party (5) Puerto Rico portal...
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    populous district of San Juan, and former town and municipality of Puerto Rico, which was merged with the municipality of San Juan in 1951. The district...
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    Capilla del Cristo (Chapel of Christ), also called Capilla del Santo Cristo de la Salud is a small chapel / museum located in the Old San Juan, Puerto Rico...
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    municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, and...
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    municipality of San Juan. Spanish and English are the official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates. Puerto Rico was...
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    historical shanty town astride the northern historic city wall of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, stretching about 650 yards (600 m) along the rocky Atlantic coast...
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    Atlantic coast of northern Puerto Rico. Home to Old San Juan, it is the site of the oldest permanent European settlement in Puerto Rico (1521), and the second...
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    Manso was named the first bishop of Puerto Rico in 1511 was "about 50 residents". Outside of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Germán was one of the largest settlements...
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    San Lorenzo (Spanish pronunciation: [san loˈɾenso], locally [ˌsaŋ loˈɾeŋso]; Spanish for "Saint Lawrence") is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located...
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    documented were four visitas to Mission San Pedro de Mocama and nine visitas to Mission San Juan del Puerto. In 1687, Father Eusebio Kino started to...
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    Hato Rey Norte, Hato Rey Sur, see above) Puerto Rico portal List of communities in Puerto Rico Old San Juan "US Census definition of "subbarrio"". factfinder...
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    Juan Manuel Dalmau Ramírez (born July 23, 1973) is a Puerto Rican politician, attorney and a candidate for Governor of Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rican...
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    invade San Juan, Puerto Rico with 27 ships and 2,500 men. After failing to be able to land at the Ensenada del Escambron on the eastern end of San Juan Islet...
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  • Guadalquini or Santa Cruz y San Buenaventura de Guadalquini for a few years before merging with the mission San Juan del Puerto. Guadalquini was the Timucua...
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    [baʝaˈmon], locally [baʝaˈmoŋ]) is a city, municipality of Puerto Rico and suburb of San Juan located in the northern coastal valley, north of Aguas Buenas...
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    San José Church (Spanish: Iglesia de San José), located in Old San Juan within the historic colonial zone of the capital of Puerto Rico, is one of the...
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    San Juan Bay (Spanish: Bahía de San Juan) is the bay and main inlet adjacent to Old San Juan in northeastern Puerto Rico. It is about 3.5 miles (5.6 km)...
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