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Catedral, Old San Juan
Catedral, located within Old San Juan, is one of 7 subbarrios of San Juan Antiguo barrio in the municipality of San Juan in Puerto Rico. History This subdistrict is named after the San Juan Cathedral, one of the oldest churches in the Americas, which is located here. 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 A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ... of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Catedral was 2,497. References External links * Old San Juan, Puerto Rico {{SanJuanPR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrios Of San Juan, Puerto Rico
The municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan is divided into 18 Barrios of Puerto Rico, barrios, 16 of which fall within the former (until 1951) municipality of Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Eight of the barrios are further divided into subbarrios, and they include the two barrios that originally composed the municipality of San Juan (namely, San Juan Antiguo and Santurce). Former municipality of Río Piedras *Caimito, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Caimito *Cupey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Cupey (formerly two barrios: Cupey Alto and Cupey Bajo) *El Cinco, San Juan, Puerto Rico, El Cinco *Gobernador Piñero, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gobernador Piñero *Hato Rey Central :Hato Rey Central is divided into four subbarrios: :*Ciudad Nueva (Hato Rey), Ciudad Nueva :*Floral Park (Hato Rey), Floral Park :*Las Monjas (Hato Rey), Las Monjas :*Quintana (Hato Rey), Quintana *Hato Rey Norte :Hato Rey Norte is divided into four subbarrios: :*El Vedado (Hato Rey), El Vedado :*Eleanor Roos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth (U
A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage", dates from the 15th century. Originally a phrase (the common-wealth or the common wealth – echoed in the modern synonym "public wealth"), it comes from the old meaning of "wealth", which is "well-being", and was deemed analogous to the Latin ''res publica''. The term literally meant "common well-being". In the 17th century, the definition of "commonwealth" expanded from its original sense of "public welfare" or "wikt:commonweal, commonweal" to mean "a state in which the supreme power is vested in the people; a republic or democracy, democratic state". The term evolved to become a title to a number of political entities. Three countries – Australia, the Bahamas, and Dominica – have the official title "Commonwealth", as do four U.S. states and two Territories of the United States, U.S. territories. Sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Municipalities In Puerto Rico
The municipalities of Puerto Rico (Spanish language, Spanish: ''municipios de Puerto Rico'') are the second-level List of administrative divisions by country, administrative divisions defined with geographic Border, boundaries and governmental authority in the Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island of Puerto Rico. Amounting to 78 municipal corporation, incorporated towns and cities equivalent to List of United States counties and county equivalents, U.S. counties, only two of which are outside the main island, namely the smaller islands of Vieques, Puerto Rico, Vieques and Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra, each municipality is governed by an elected Mayor–council government#Strong-mayor government form, strong mayor and a Unicameralism, unicameral municipal council, legislature. The municipalities are divided into 902 Barrios of Puerto Rico, barrios, the third-level administrative divisions under the political leadership of the municipal government. As a Territories of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan ( , ; Spanish for "Saint John the Baptist, John") is the capital city and most populous Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality in the Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the United States Census Bureau, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, 57th-most populous city under the jurisdiction of the United States, with a population of 342,259. San Juan was founded by Spanish Empire, Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port City"). Puerto Rico's capital is the second oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, founded in 1496, and is the List of North American settlements by year of foundation, oldest European-established city under United States of America, United States sovereignty. Several historical buildings are located in the historic district of Old S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subdivisions Of San Juan, Puerto Rico
The municipality of San Juan is divided into 18 barrios, 16 of which fall within the former (until 1951) municipality of Río Piedras. Eight of the barrios are further divided into subbarrios, and they include the two barrios that originally composed the municipality of San Juan (namely, San Juan Antiguo and Santurce). Former municipality of Río Piedras * Caimito * Cupey (formerly two barrios: Cupey Alto and Cupey Bajo) * El Cinco * Gobernador Piñero * Hato Rey Central :Hato Rey Central is divided into four subbarrios: :* Ciudad Nueva :*Floral Park :* Las Monjas :* Quintana * Hato Rey Norte :Hato Rey Norte is divided into four subbarrios: :* El Vedado :*Eleanor Roosevelt :* Martín Peña :* Puerto Nuevo *Hato Rey Sur :Hato Rey Sur is divided into four subbarrios: :* Bella Vista :* Hyde Park :* La 37 :* Santa Rita * Monacillo * Monacillo Urbano * Oriente :Oriente is divided into three subbarrios: :* Borínquen :* López Sicardó :* San José * Río Piedras Pueblo :Río ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Juan Antiguo
San Juan Antiguo is a barrio in San Juan, Puerto Rico. San Juan Antiguo has 7 subbarrios. In 2020, San Juan Antiguo had a population of 6,383 inhabitants and a population density of 2,400 people per km2. San Juan Antiguo is entirely located within the Isleta de San Juan, an islet off the coast of Puerto Rico where Old San Juan was settled, and is connected to the main island of Puerto Rico by bridges and a causeway. History In the late 19th century, San Juan Antiguo called ''Plaza de San Juan'' is where Spain had its war fortifications and military buildings. 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. Subbarrios San Juan Antiguo is divided into the following subbarrios: # Ballajá # Catedral # Marina # Mercado # Puerta de Tierra # San Cristóbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old San Juan
Old San Juan () is a historic district located at the "northwest triangle" of the San Juan Islet, islet of San Juan in San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. Its area roughly correlates to the Ballajá, Old San Juan, Ballajá, Catedral, Old San Juan, Catedral, Marina, Mercado, Old San Juan, Mercado, San Cristóbal, Old San Juan, San Cristóbal, and San Francisco, Old San Juan, San Francisco sub-barrios (sub-districts) of barrio San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Old San Juan is the oldest settlement within Puerto Rico and the Historic district, historic Spanish colonization of the Americas, colonial district of the city of San Juan. This historic district is a Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones, Puerto Rico Registered Historic Zone and a National Historic Landmark, National Historic Landmark District, Old San Juan Historic District, and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places, United States National Register of Historic Plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrios Of Puerto Rico
The barrios of Puerto Rico are the third-level administrative divisions defined with geographic boundaries serving as the primary legal divisions of the 78 municipalities in the archipelago and island of Puerto Rico. Amounting to 902 wards or boroughs equivalent to minor civil divisions in the U.S., like cities, townships, and parishes, barrios are under the political authority of the elected strong mayor and unicameral legislature governing the municipality within which they are located. Barrios are subdivided into numerous subbarrios, districts, communities, and/or sectors. Except for San Juan, Ponce, Florida, and Vieques, all municipalities have a barrio equivalent to a ''downtown'' area in the U.S. called ''pueblo,'' officially known as ''barrio-pueblo'' (literally "neighborhood-town"), which typically is the site of the historic Spanish colonial settlement, administrative center, and urban core of the municipality. Of the 902 barrios proper, 828 are barrios and 74 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catedral Metropolitana Basílica De San Juan Bautista (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
The Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of Saint John the Baptist (Spanish: ''Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de San Juan Bautista''), officially known as the Minor Basilica of Saint John the Baptist and Parish of Our Lady of Remedies (''Basilica Menor de San Juan Bautista y Parroquia Nuestra Señora de los Remedios''), is the Catholic cathedral A cathedral is a church (building), church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, Annual conferences within Methodism, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually s ... for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico, Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico. Located in the Old San Juan historic district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, it is one of the oldest buildings in both Puerto Rico and the Americas, the oldest cathedral building in the United States, the oldest purpose-built cathedral building and second-oldest existing cathedral in the Americas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands, in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands, in the Western Mediterranean Sea, and the Autonomous communities of Spain#Autonomous cities, autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in mainland Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain's capital and List of largest cities in Spain, largest city is Madrid, and other major List of metropolitan areas in Spain, urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (April 21 – August 13, 1898) was fought between Restoration (Spain), Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine (1889), USS ''Maine'' in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acquiring sovereignty over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, and establishing a protectorate over Cuba. It represented U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence and Philippine Revolution, with the latter later leading to the Philippine–American War. The Spanish–American War brought an end to almost four centuries of Spanish presence in the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific; the United States meanwhile not only became a major world power, but also gained several island possessions spanning the globe, which provoked rancorous debate over the wisdom of expansionism. The 19th century represented a clear decline for the Spanish Empire, while the United States went from a newly founded country to a rising power. In 1895, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Paris Of 1898
The Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, commonly known as the Treaty of Paris of 1898, was signed by Restoration (Spain), Spain and the United States on December 10, 1898, and marked the end of the Spanish–American War. Under it, Spain relinquished all claim of sovereignty over and title to territories described there as ''the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones, the archipelago known as the Philippine Islands, and comprehending the islands lying within the following line:'' (details elided), to the United States. The cession of the Philippines involved a compensation of $20 million from the United States to Spain.Puerto Rico is spelled as "Porto Rico" in the treaty. The treaty came into effect on April 11, 1899, when the documents of ratification were exchanged. It was the first treaty negotiated between the two governments sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
