Las Casas is one of the forty subbarrios of

Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico Santurce (, from the Basque ''Santurtzi'' which means Saint George) is a barrio or district in the municipality of San Juan. Its population in 2020 was 69,469. It is also the biggest and most populated of all the barrios in the capital city wi ...

Demographics

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, Las Casas had a population of 6,775.Puerto Rico 2000: Population and Housing Unit Counts
/ref> In 2010, Las Casas had a population of 6,399 and a population density of 20,641.9 persons per square mile.

Features

is a community and recreational center located in Las Casas.

Camp Las Casas US Army installation

The area of "Las Casas" was also where the United States Army established

Camp Las Casas Camp Las Casas was a United States military installation established in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 1904. The camp was the main training base of the "Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry," On January 15, 1899, the military government changed the name of ...

, a military installation established in 1904. The camp was the main training base of the "Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry". On January 15, 1899, the military government changed the name of Puerto Rico to Porto Rico. (On May 17, 1932, U.S. Congress changed the name back to "Puerto Rico"). The Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry was a segregated U.S. Army Regiment which was later renamed the "

65th Infantry Regiment The 65th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed "The Borinqueneers" during the Korean War for the original Taíno Indian name for Puerto Rico (Borinquen), is a Puerto Rican regiment of the United States Army. The regiment's motto is ''Honor et Fidelita ...

". The base continued in operation until 1946, when it was finally closed and the

Residencial Las Casas Residencial Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, more commonly known as Residencial Las Casas, Caserio Las Casas or Las Casas, is a public housing complex located in San Juan, Puerto Rico consisting of 417 housing units. It is under the management of the ...

now stands."Historia Militar de Puerto Rico"; by

Héctor Andrés Negroni Colonel Héctor Andrés Negroni (born January 30, 1938) is a United States Air Force officer, historian, senior aerospace defense executive, author, and the first Puerto Rican graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. He was commissioned ...

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Location

Las Casas is surrounded by two bodies of water, San José Lagoon on the east, and Los Corozos Lagoon on the north. There's also a small islet on the east,

Guachinanga Island Isla Guachinanga is a small island located in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The island, which has a number of trees and ecological areas, was reportedly littered with trash as of 2013. Isla Guachinanga is near Barrio Obrero and Residencial ...

. To the north of Las Casas is Barrio Obrero.

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Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico Municipality of San Juan {{SanJuanPR-geo-stub

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Camp Las Casas US Army installation

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