Gobernador Piñero is one of the 18
barrios of the municipality of
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jur ...
. With a population of 44,006 (
2010
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) living in a land area of , it is
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, may refer to:
Places Argentina
* San Juan Province, Argentina
* San Juan, Argentina, the capital of that province
* San Juan, Salta, a village in Iruya, Salta Province
* San Juan (Buenos Aires Underground), ...
’s second most populated
barrio
''Barrio'' () is a Spanish language, Spanish word that means "Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter" or "neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional (e.g. residenti ...
after
Santurce, and the fourth largest in land area.
This district is named after
Jesús T. Piñero
Jesús T. Piñero Jiménez (April 16, 1897 – November 19, 1952) was the first and only native Puerto Rican to be appointed governor of Puerto Rico by the Government of the United States.
Early years
Jesús Toribio Piñero Jiménez was born i ...
who was the first and only native Puerto Rican
governor of the territory under the American colonial administration in 1946.
Demographics
Gobernador Piñero is San Juan’s second most populated barrio after Santurce. It has a population density of 10,770.4 residents per square mile (4,158.47/km
2).
Geography
Gobernador Piñero is bounded to the north by the
San Juan Bay
San Juan Bay ( es, Bahía de San Juan) is the bay and main inlet adjacent to Old San Juan in northeastern Puerto Rico. It is about in length, the largest body of water in an estuary of about of channels, inlets and eight interconnected lagoons ...
and Port and
Hato Rey Norte
Hato Rey Norte is one of the 18 barrios of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hato Rey Norte was part of the former municipality of Rio Piedras, before it was merged with the municipality of San Juan in 1951.
It is bounded by Hato Rey C ...
barrio, with the barrios of
Hato Rey Sur
Hato Rey Sur is one of the 18 barrios of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hato Rey Sur was a barrio of the former municipality of Rio Piedras, before it was merged with the municipality of San Juan in 1951. Following the annexation of ...
and
El Cinco to the east, by
Monacillo Urbano to the south, and by the
municipality of Guaynabo to the west.
Gobernador Piñero includes the areas of
Puerto Nuevo (including Puerto Nuevo Norte), Villa Borinquen,
Bosque Urbano de San Patricio, Caparra Terrace and Centro Médico.
Landmarks and places of interest
*
Luis Muñoz Marín Park, one of the main city parks of San Juan.
*
Port of San Juan
The Port of San Juan ( es, Puerto de San Juan) is a seaport facility located in the metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The "Port of San Juan" is the general name used to call various passenger and cargo facilities located in lands aro ...
, partially located in the barrio at
Puerto Nuevo.
* San Juan Medical Center or ''
Centro Médico de Rio Piedras''.
*
San Patricio State Forest
San Patricio State Forest (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Bosque Estatal de San Patricio''), also known as the San Patricio Urban Forest (Spanish: ''Bosque Urbano de San Patricio'') is one of the 20 forests that make up the List of Puerto Rico sta ...
, also known as the San Patricio Urban Forest, one of the
20 state forests of Puerto Rico.
*
University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
The University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus — Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Ciencias Médicas (UPR-RCM) in Spanish— is a public health sciences-oriented university in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is part of the Univ ...
.
Transportation
The area is served by the
Martínez Nadal (bordering with the
municipality of Guaynabo),
Las Lomas,
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
and
Centro Médico metro stations.
Gallery
File:Tren Urbano Martínez Nadal station (01).jpg, Martínez Nadal metro system station.
File:San Juan Port cargo ships.jpg, The Port of San Juan is partially located in this barrio.
File:Parque Luis Muñoz Marín ( ciso).jpg, Luis Muñoz Marín Park
See also
*
List of communities in Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico, there are 78 municipalities and 902 municipio subdivisions made up of 827 barrios and 75 barrios-pueblo. There are also a number of subbarrios and communities. The following is a list of the 902 barrios, some of the subbarrios, i ...
References
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Barrios of San Juan, Puerto Rico
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