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    Río Piedras (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈrio ˈpjeðɾas]) is a populous district of San Juan, and former town and municipality of Puerto Rico, which was merged...
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  • The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (Spanish: Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras; UPR-RP, or informally La IUPI) is a public...
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    boundary between the municipalities of Las Piedras and Río Grande. Las Piedras was founded in 1793. Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the...
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    Río Grande (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o ˈɣɾande]) is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located on the eastern edge of the Northern Coastal Valley...
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    The Río Piedras massacre occurred on October 24, 1935, at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. Puerto Rico Police officers confronted and opened...
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  • of Puerto Rico – or Seminario Evangélico de Puerto Rico (SEPR) in Spanish – is a private mainline Protestant seminary in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. The...
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    the dissolved municipality of Río Piedras. It now stretches over three barrios of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico: Hato Rey Norte, Hato Rey Central...
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  • education center in Puerto Rico. Its initial enrollment was 20 students and 5 professors. The following year it was moved to Río Piedras. On March 12, 1903...
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    Rafael Ithier (category People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)
    interviewed by a news outlet in Puerto Rico about his contributions to Puerto Rican music. Raised in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, he showed a passion for music...
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    at the Ernesto Ramos Antonini de Río Piedras residential apartments in the Río Piedras area of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The shooting led to alarm partly...
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    The Río Piedras State Penitentiary, also known as Puerto Rico Island Penitentiary or Oso Blanco (or White Bear in English), was a correctional facility...
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    Pedro Capó (category Singers from San Juan, Puerto Rico)
    Puerto Rico Irma Nydia Vázquez. He studied at Colegio Calasanz in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Pedro picked up the guitar at an early age and quickly became proficient...
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  • Jorge Rivera Nieves (category People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)
    Rivera Nieves was born in the San Juan suburb of Río Piedras, the son of Jorge Rivera, from the southern Puerto Rican city of San Germán and of Esperanza Nieves...
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  • University of Puerto Rico at Ponce University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus University of Puerto Rico at Utuado University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences...
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    Héctor Luis Acevedo (category People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)
    Acevedo Pérez (born November 8, 1947) is a Puerto Rican politician from Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is the son of Héctor N. Acevedo and Toñita...
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    municipality in Puerto Rico, located in the northeastern region, north of Juncos and Las Piedras; south of Loíza; east of Carolina; and west of Río Grande. Canóvanas...
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    as the Río Piedras explosion) was a gas explosion that occurred on November 21, 1996 at the Humberto Vidal shoe store in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. The explosion...
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  • José Juan García (category People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)
    drug-rehabilitation institution called Hogar CREA. García was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico where he was raised by his parents. He had a tough childhood and...
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    Río is a barrio in the municipality of Las Piedras, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 5,096. El Río was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico...
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  • of Puerto Rico School of Law is a law school in Puerto Rico. It is one of the professional graduate schools of University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus...
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    Juan Evangelista Venegas (category Sportspeople from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)
    underprivileged section of the town of Río Piedras. Río Piedras at the time was not incorporated into the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico. There street fighting was...
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    of Puerto Rico. In 1951 the municipalities of San Juan and Río Piedras were merged to redefine San Juan's current city limits. Today Río Piedras comprises...
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    formerly called Expreso Las Américas. It runs from PR-1 in southwest Río Piedras and heads south until it intersects with highway PR-2 in Ponce. At its...
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    Joaquin Phoenix (category People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)
    at the Hospital Metropolitano San Francisco in the Río Piedras district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to John Lee Bottom, the founder of a landscape gardening...
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  • Rafael Solis (boxer) (category Sportspeople from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)
    De Jesus (born 29 January, 1958, in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a former junior lightweight boxer from Puerto Rico. He was raised in the barrio of Camito...
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    of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, then headed by Alegría, and in 1988, it was restored by...
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    and clothing outlets. A storefront mosque on Calle Padre Colón in the Río Piedras district of San Juan served the entire religious community on the island...
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    Ramón Rodríguez (actor) (category People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)
    the Showtime television series The Affair. Rodríguez was born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico on September 24th, 1979 and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan...
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  • José Luis González (writer) (category Dominican Republic emigrants to Puerto Rico)
    was raised in Puerto Rico and went on to obtain a Bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. He also...
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    Melina León (category People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)
    León (born Yamillette Aponte Yunqué on 12 July 1973 in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican merengue singer and actress. From an early age she...
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