San Cristóbal, within
Old San Juan, is one of the seven subbarrios of
San Juan Antiguo barrio in the municipality of
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), ...
in Puerto Rico.
''1990 Census of Housing. Detailed Housing Characteristics: Puerto Rico.'' U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census.
Retrieved February 14, 2011.
History
This subdistrict is named after Castillo San Cristóbal, one of the largest European fortifications in the Americas
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Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of San Cristóbal was 3,131.
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Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Geography of San Juan, Puerto Rico
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